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• vo.
  vo.

  abbreviation

  verso.
• V.O.
  V.O.

  abbreviation

  very old (used especially to indicate the age of whiskey or brandy, usually six to eight years old).
• VO
  VO

  abbreviation

  very old: used to imply that a brandy or whisky is old; now often extended to port and other dessert wines

vo.

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. verso.

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V.O. ² American  

abbreviation

1. very old (used especially to indicate the age of whiskey or brandy, usually six to eight years old).

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VO ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. very old: used to imply that a brandy or whisky is old; now often extended to port and other dessert wines

2. Royal Victorian Order

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vo. ² British  

abbreviation

1. verso

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vo. V.O. VO

With further Notes and an Introduction by Donald Ferguson, London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, MDCCCCII, 8 vo. pp. cvii-292.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry

Crown 8 vo. 1s. boards; 1s. 6d. cloth.

From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by Hurlbert, William Henry

Professor Burnham, building on the scholarship of V.O.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022

In his seminal 1949 book, “Southern Politics in State and Nation,” the scholar V.O.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2019

Cochran argued that the same sorts of maladies which afflicted the South circa 1950, diagnosed in V.O.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2018

Case was brought against Magnolia Liquor Co., the sole Seagram's distributor in New Orleans, which required dealers to take Seagram's Ancient Bottle and 7 Crown brands in order to get scarce Scotch and Seagram's V.O.

From Time Magazine Archive

First and second quality sold in barrels; one-star, two-star, three-star and V.O. sold in bottles.

From Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products by Bevan, William

Points docked for no Joe Pesci VO though.

From Golf Digest ● Jan. 31, 2018

Thanks to the added VO, the audience is actually missing some world-building and immersion because our narrator is talking about things we’ve already taken in.

From The Verge ● Oct. 3, 2017

But on the final day of searching at the lower site, Stoner unearthed a piece of metal with a label attached to some wires that read "CKPT VO RCRD" an abbreviation of Cockpit Voice Recorder.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2017

Over-reliance on VO can be a crutch, as it was on the fall’s somewhat charming A to Z and the awful Manhattan Love Story.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2014