po

plural pos

1. obsoleteA peacock.First known use 8th–19th c.

plural pos

1. AustraliaNew ZealandUKcolloquialdatedA chamberpot.First known use 19th c.

   ‘Pos’ or ‘chamber pots’ were provided under the beds.

   1988, Richard Hoggart, A Local Habitation, 1918-40, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 67

   3 more examples

   Ma's out, Pa's out, let's talk rude-- Pee, po, belly, bum, drawers!

   1961, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, “P** P* B**** B** D*******”, in The Bestiary of Flanders & Swann

   There are always several spitoons & pos [chamber pots] about the room & a loathesome smell of consumption, which I expect I shall catch.

   1989, Leonard Woolf, edited by Frederic Spotts, Letters of Leonard Woolf, page 86

   Shaking the last few drops from off the end he looked down in surprise at the great head of steam that brimmed above the po, belatedly apprised of just how icy the October garret was.

   2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 44

   Synonyms: chamber pot

alternative po'

1. pluralplural onlyslangThe police.

   "'Bout time the po' got here," someone said loud enough for Bree to hear.

   2009, Debra Webb, Secrets in Four Corners, Toronto, Ont. […]: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 155

   2 more examples

   "Basically it's a celebration of all the gearheads in the area," Rob told him. "Sometimes we get busted by the po, but we always find a new place to show off our rides. Enjoy this lot while we have it."

   2008, Megan T. White, Rounding the Finish Line, Baltimore, M.D.: PublishAmerica, →ISBN, page 209

   Now, one of the rules I had—this is another reason why certain police probably respected us dudes—when it was hot, when I saw certain po, we would shut it down. We left. I would just leave. I would give them they space and let them go.

   2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 89

alternative poh

1. Singaporecolloquialnot comparableThinner; with more water added to dilute it.

1. The longest river in Italy, which flows 652 kilometers eastward to the Adriatic Sea near Venice.

plural POs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of post office.
2. abbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of purchase order.
3. abbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of police officer.
4. abbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of probation officer.

   I gotta take a whiz test to my PO / I know I failed 'cause I done smoked major weed, bro

   1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz

5. abbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of petty officer.
6. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of principal officer.
7. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of playoff.
8. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of project officer.

1. abbreviationinitialismnot comparablemedicineInitialism of per os (“by mouth, orally”).

   Antonyms: NPO, parenterally

1. abbreviationinitialismnot comparablemedicineInitialism of peroral.