provo
noun
a Dutch or German political agitator, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
Provos
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pluralof Provo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
provos
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pluralof provo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
provonouna Dutch or German political agitator, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Most hackers wouldn’t have even looked at Provos’s old code, assuming that it had been picked over for bugs, Provos said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
This spring, “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia” will celebrate works from the past, including the Emeryville mud flats sculptures between Berkeley and Oakland and the radical actions of the Dutch group the Provos.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2017
Hugh Leonard, another writer who is now dead, called over a restaurant in Dublin, for all to hear, "the sneering insinuation that I was 'sleeping with Provos'".
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012
“We have done a lot of work to detect these quickly and to warn users,” Niels Provos, principal software engineer in Google’s infrastructure security group, said in an interview.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 15, 2011
Mum is Mayo, who has ties to the Provos, a callow sense of Realpolitik and a Flemish masterpiece that she stole from a London museum.
From Time Magazine Archive
With timing Secretary of State Kerry must have viewed as perverse, the Americans, Europeans, Russians and provos met in Geneva the next day to negotiate a deescalation.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2014
During the national Liberation Day celebration two weeks ago, 140 provos and other student activists were arrested.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shorty grabbed what money there was on the board, and he and Si made a burst of speed which took them out of reach of the "provos" in a few seconds.
From Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures by John McElroy
He could not help but think of the provos warning nuzzled like that dog's steady cry over and over into the fabric of one's memory swift as searing iron.
From The Land of Look Behind by Paul Cameron Brown
