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POC en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of proof of concept.
    • PoC exploit
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of point of contact.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of percentage of completion.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of point of care.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of port of call.
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, person, uncountable) Initialism of person of color or people of color.
    • Rapidly, knitters on Instagram started using hashtags such as #pocknitters and #diversknitty, and there were calls to support POC knitters by buying from them (if they owned a business) and following them, and to “buy them a coffee” by donating money to their Patreon accounts. 2019 February 17, Kathrine Jebsen Moore, “A Witch-hunt on Instagram”, in Claire Lehmann, editor, Quillette, Sydney, N.S.W., archived from the original on 02 Mar 2019:
    • The organizers didn’t think to invite even a single POC to speak.
  7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, slang, uncountable, vulgar) Initialism of piece of crap.

Forms

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POCs Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

MOC · WOC · NBPOC · BIPOC

Source: en.wiktionary, “POC” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

POC en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Philippine Olympic Committee.