| 词汇 | provo |
| 词源 | Provo. French provocateur, “one who provokes action,” is the ancestor of Provo, for a member of the Provisional I.R.A. How- ever, the Provos, who favored terrorist action, breaking from the I.R.A. in 1971, seem to have borrowed the shortened French word from a Dutch political group using it at the time. |
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