po
noun
a chamber pot.
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po
1 American
[poh]
/ poʊ /
noun
Australia and New Zealand.
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pos
plural
Po
2
American
[poh]
/ poʊ /
noun
Po
3
American
Symbol, Chemistry.
p.o.
4
American
abbreviation
PO
5
American
P.O.
6
American
PO
1
British
abbreviation
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Post Office
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Personnel Officer
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petty officer
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Pilot Officer
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Also: p.o.. postal order
Po
2
British
symbol
Po
3
British
/ pəʊ /
noun
po
4
British
/ pəʊ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of po1
1875–80; probably < French pot ( de chambre ) chamber pot
Origin of p.o.4
From Latin per ōs
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I personally like to lightly steam them and then deep fry them as a substitute for oysters in my po boys.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2021
"Ma po tofu has to be a favourite," says David Yeung, a smile evident in his voice.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2020
With a rustic-industrial aesthetic and wide windows overlooking the harbor, it’s a favorite for locally sourced seafood dishes like soft-shell crab BLTs and fried oyster po boys.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2019
Your welcome gift bag includes the herbal ointment Tiger Balm and Chinese po chai pills for indigestion.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2019
“I like to know whut’s de hurt in lettin dat po chile see her own baby,” Dilsey says.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Near the upper center of the scene, the Po Valley stands out as a broad expanse of green and brown.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
After centuries thriving in the Po basin, producers are now trying dry-seeding, which works without continuous flooding.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Italy’s longest river, the Po, is essential for irrigating farmland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
We walk Sham Shui Po, once among the city’s densest working-class food neighborhoods.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Po ly was having difficulty finding each new breath.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
At first Eliot found Mrs. Sen’s anxiety incomprehensible; his mother had a p.o. box in town, and she collected mail so infrequently that once their electricity was cut off for three days.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Many life insurance companies use PO boxes — and as I learned the hard way, you can only send mail to PO boxes via the United States Postal Service.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
The FCA's investigation, which has taken a number of years, found Monzo took on customers using using PO boxes, foreign addresses with UK postcodes or "obviously implausible UK addresses, such as well-known London landmarks".
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025
We don't talk about how much the revolving door of sending people back to jail is just based on who your PO was, who your lawyer was, who your judge was that day.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023
PO lawmaker Marcin Kierwinski condemned Duda's decision to sign the bill.
From Reuters ● May 29, 2023
The envelope was addressed to his PO box.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
Those with P.O. boxes have been redirected to a post office on North Vignes Street near Union Station, about two miles away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
When Paxton, the state attorney general, filed the lawsuit in February suing Dallas, a P.O.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
Mystified, Weaver said he drove there, only to find it was a P.O.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2024
But P.&I.D.’s legal address was a P.O. box on Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
Even before it could have been delivered to the P.O.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
Two cardiologists, the Navy's Captain Ashton Graybiel and the Air Force's Dr. Lawrence E. Lamb, foresee pos sibly grave difficulties for both the circulatory and respiratory systems under long exposure to g-free conditions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two groups of self-appointed trustees fought over pos session of the old shrine, took their squabble into court.
From Time Magazine Archive
James Booth's Joyce lacks some of the incisive arrogance that the character ought to pos sess, while Tim Curry's Tzara is larkily iconoclastic without quite being a cultural arson ist.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this enterprise heaven's cooperation is assured, providing we make its cooperation pos sible.
From Time Magazine Archive
The weather of to-day is the result of all those long-past phases of temperature, and, unless they were altered, no change is pos sible to-day.
From My Path to Atheism by Annie Wood Besant
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