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Or do they just grab some random avos and crush them into their game-day guac?

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2015

An expert genealogist will provide any solvent man with a genus et pro avos to order.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

Having won temporary respite by his well-acted anguish, he was ready to proceed again on the national plan of avos which may be vulgarly rendered into English by "running for luck."

From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence