Hov

//eɪt͡ʃ əʊ ˈviː// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of high-occupancy vehicle. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "Ultimately, Ms. Bottone said she just wanted to know whether she could keep driving in the H.O.V. lane for the remainder of her pregnancy, as she said she had in her previous pregnancies, long before the overturning of Roe."

  2. 2
    Initialism of high-occupancy vehicle lane. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. 3
    Initialism of human-occupied vehicle. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village on Suðuroy, Faroe Islands.
  2. 2
    A village, the administrative centre of Søndre Land municipality, Innlandet, Norway.

Synonyms

All synonyms
carpool lanehigh occupancy vehiclehigh-occupancy vehiclehothuman-occupied vehiclereserved bus lane

Example

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"Ultimately, Ms. Bottone said she just wanted to know whether she could keep driving in the H.O.V. lane for the remainder of her pregnancy, as she said she had in her previous pregnancies, long before the overturning of Roe."

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HOV lane

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