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O noun- an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) UK, 1961 Used by civil servants; suggestive of a casual familiarity with the honour.
- opium US, 1933
- [O]n the floor a drunken snoring soldier who’d just eaten some O after lush. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, p. 347, 10 May 1952
- If I use at all I want the best. I want to smoke O or use good pure M or H. — William Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953–1957, p. 105, 1 August 1955
- I don’t know much about O and maybe my eyes are dilated? — Ken Kesey, Kesey’s Jail Journal, p. 1, 1967
- He identified the meth by its effect, and the liquid O by its taste and blackness. — Terry Southern, Blue Movie, p. 202, 1970
- an ovation US
Most commonly heard in the term “standing O”. - Ed Ray received a hero’s reception at the state convention of the School Employees Association, and a tumultus standing-O when he was presented its Man-of-the-Year Award. — Bill Cardoso, The Maltese Sangweech, p. 62, 1984
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