oppo
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English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (countable, UK, slang) A friend, associate or colleague. [from 20th c.]
- 2012, Tony Orchard, Here's to our Far-Flung Empire:
- 'I suppose you're referring to Fluker,' I told him, and he looked at me in stunned amazement when I explained that he was one of my old oppoes.
- 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 53:
- “It's all right, chaps, the decorator's come. This 'ere is me old ’oppo Ginger Vernall.”
Etymology 2[edit]
Clipping of opposition, or of opposition research as a whole.
Noun[edit]
oppo (uncountable)
- (uncountable, US, politics, informal) Research into one's opponent's family, friends, and past, which aims to uncover activities or interests which embarrass or discredit them.
- Synonyms: oppo research, opposition research
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