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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

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So I teech them to clap gud and they look at me with luv.

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

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

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2013

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

Her letters always ended the same way: Miss U, luv U, wouldn’t want 2 B U!

From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead

Southwest Airlines LUV 0.58%increase; up pointing triangle cut its outlook again, as fuel costs continue to weigh on airlines’ margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Cabello will be coming off the release of her fourth studio album, “C,XOXO,” with its internet-pop lead single, “I LUV IT” featuring Playboi Carti.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

I’d actually LUV 2 c a more street record win- male OR female!

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

“If a fellow brings a girl to LUV, she may only be his mother, his sister or his female first cousin,” one print ad stipulated.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2020

About fifteen hundred fans from Nimitz were already there, some of them having made the 330-mile trip in chartered Grey-hound buses that were shoe-polished on the side with the words WE LUV YOU BLUE.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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