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luv

American  
[luhv] / lʌv /

noun

Eye Dialect.
  1. love.


LUV British  

abbreviation

  1. love

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

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Because that is also how we show our luv for our pups, as Foxes!

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2017

He gave her a generous slab — worth considerably more than she’d tendered — and pronounced, “There you go, luv, that’ll be your Christmas treat!”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2016

I'm fond, too, of Lord luv a duck, whose delightful obscurity has defeated even Michael Quinion's excellent World Wide Words blog but is a splendidly satisfying thing to say.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2013

How is the poor luv fairing after being dragged up Rodeo Drive and down 57th Street?

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2012

Once he’d even reprogrammed the electronic billboards in Times Square to read: all da ladies luv leo...accidentally, of course.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan