Usually means: Informal British term for boss.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. guv: Merriam-Webster
  2. guv: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. guv: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Guv, guv: Wordnik
  5. guv: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. guv: Wiktionary
  7. guv: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. guv: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. guv: Dictionary.com
  10. GUV: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. guv: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. guv: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GUV: Acronym Finder
  2. GUV: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Guv: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. guv: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. The Guv, guv, the guv: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (UK, Ireland, chiefly London, informal) A form of address to a man, usually a stranger or a superior.
noun:  (UK, informal) A male prison officer.
noun:  Initialism of germicidal ultraviolet.

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