guv

Example Sentences

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The prime minister, who only arrived in parliament in 2015, really cannot do the "don't blame me guv routine" anymore, they argue.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2023

“I went to high school with GOP guv candidate @BrianKempGA,” Davis wrote in the now-deleted tweet.

From Fox News • Dec. 22, 2018

Lest that sound like our guv is just another face in the crowd, consider this: Cillizza put Inslee in the second of four “tiers” — the first tier being most likely to clinch the nomination.

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2017

Yet somewhere in my marrow I know that this is just a vain attempt to exculpate myself – it wasn't me, guv.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2012

I really thought that guv had something on the ball.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole