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Provos
- noun - a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland
Prowls
- noun - loiter about, with no apparent aim
- move about in or as if in a predatory manner; "The suspicious stranger prowls the streets of the town"
- the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner)
Prozac
- noun - a selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor commonly prescribed as an antidepressant (trade names Prozac or Sarafem); it is thought to work by increasing the activity of serotonin in the brain
Prudes
- noun - a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum
Pruned
- verb - cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
Pruner
- noun - a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees
- a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs; "untouched by the pruner's axe"
Prunes
- noun - cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
- dried plum
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
Prunos
- noun - a liquor concocted from a mixture of ingredients (such as prunes and raisins and milk and sugar) that can be fermented to produce alcohol; made by prison inmates
Prunus
- noun - a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions
Prying
- verb - be nosey; "Don't pry into my personal matters!"
- make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him"
- offensive inquisitiveness
- offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day"
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office"
- to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"