"oppo" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Clipping of opposite number.",
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      "form": "oppos",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Tony Orchard, Here's to our Far-Flung Empire",
          "text": "'I suppose you're referring to Fluker,' I told him, and he looked at me in stunned amazement when I explained that he was one of my old oppoes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 53",
          "text": "“It's all right, chaps, the decorator's come. This 'ere is me old ’oppo Ginger Vernall.”",
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        "A friend, associate or colleague."
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          "colleague",
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        ]
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        "(countable, UK, slang) A friend, associate or colleague."
      ],
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        "countable",
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      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɒ.pəʊ/",
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        "UK"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɑ.poʊ/",
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        "US"
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      "rhymes": "-ɒpəʊ"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑpoʊ"
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  ],
  "word": "oppo"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Clipping of opposition, or of opposition research as a whole.",
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Politics",
          "orig": "en:Politics",
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      "glosses": [
        "Research into one's opponent's family, friends, and past, which aims to uncover activities or interests which embarrass or discredit them."
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        "(uncountable, US, politics, informal) Research into one's opponent's family, friends, and past, which aims to uncover activities or interests which embarrass or discredit them."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "oppo research"
        },
        {
          "word": "opposition research"
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    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈɑ.poʊ/",
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      "rhymes": "-ɒpəʊ"
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    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Rhymes:English/ɑpoʊ",
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    "Rhymes:English/ɒpəʊ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒpəʊ/2 syllables"
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  ],
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        },
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        "A friend, associate or colleague."
      ],
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          "colleague",
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        "(countable, UK, slang) A friend, associate or colleague."
      ],
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        "Research into one's opponent's family, friends, and past, which aims to uncover activities or interests which embarrass or discredit them."
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        "(uncountable, US, politics, informal) Research into one's opponent's family, friends, and past, which aims to uncover activities or interests which embarrass or discredit them."
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