lav
noun
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lav
1 American
[lav]
/ læv /
noun
Informal.
LAV
2
American
abbreviation
lav
British
/ læv /
noun
Etymology
Origin of lav1
By shortening
Origin of LAV2
First recorded in 1980–85
Example Sentences
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I’d sing the refrain, “Jesus loves me this I know,” as “Geez-suz lav me thiss ay know.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
BBC Homes Under the Hammer property expert Martin Roberts isn't surprised developers have a lav affair with old loos, because they've got many attractions some savvy investors are after.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2022
“I walked downstairs and they warned me not to go to the bathroom because there were too many people in front of the lav door,” said Coleman.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
“Retired flight attendant here. The scene while sitting next to the lav, scarfing down a salad and showing how to open the door made me laugh out loud,” another commented.
From Fox News ● Apr. 2, 2020
One crumpled frankfurter lav 011 its side, its one wheel horizontal above it, a traffic fatality.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
In a statement posted on social media, animal rights lobby group LAV welcomed the news, saying their rehousing plans are "concrete and real" and that it would fund them.
From BBC ● May 26, 2023
Anti-vivisection group LAV called the bill "an ideological, anti-scientific crusade against progress".
From Reuters ● Mar. 28, 2023
Louis Vigliotti, the owner of LAV Engineering in Volusia County's Ormond Beach, spent the morning surveying damaged coastal properties.
From Reuters ● Nov. 11, 2022
It soon became clear that LAV, HTLV-3 and a third virus — subsequently isolated by researcher Jay Levy — were variants of the same pathogen.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2022
At Idlewild, the LAV staff began preparing late snacks for the 64 passengers and the ten-man crew.
From Time Magazine Archive
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