SUV

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛs.juːˈviː/, /suv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɛs.juˈvi/

SUV (plural SUVs)

1. Initialism of sport utility vehicle; also S.U.V.
   • 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth, page 23:

     A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.

   • 2019 March 7, George Monbiot, “Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     As SUVs are higher and heavier, they are more likely to kill the people they hit. Driving an SUV in an urban area is an antisocial act.

   • 2021 February 4, Stephen Williams, “E.V.s Force Carmakers to Reinvent the Wheel, and Brakes, and Mirrors …”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 12 February 2021:

     Audi, which markets a variety of electrified S.U.V.s like the E-tron, is developing other designs as pure electrics, said an Audi of America spokesman, Mark Dahncke.

   • 2021 April 1, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “Sales of Bentleys and Lamborghinis are booming because rich people are bored”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     For the whole year, the exotic automaker sold 7,430 cars and SUVs, down 9.5% compared to 2019. But the last quarter of 2020 was the best in the Italian supercar maker’s history and its order banks are already filled for the first nine months of 2021, Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann said.

• CUV (“compact utility vehicle”)
• XUV (“crossover utility vehicle”)
• EUV (“electric utility vehicle”)

• Vus, USV, VUs

Borrowed from English SUV.

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.juˈvi/

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SUV m (plural SUV's, diminutive SUV'tje n)

1. SUV (sports utility vehicle)

• bluf-SUV

SUV

1. initialism of Sporta Utiligebla Veturilo; SUV

Borrowed from English SUV.

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SUV m (plural SUVs)

1. (Anglicism) SUV; synonym of VUS (véhicule utilitaire sport)

• VUS
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SUV n or m (strong, genitive SUVs or SUV, plural SUVs or SUV)

1. initialism of Sport Utility Vehicle; SUV

• Geländewagen

• “SUV” in Duden online
• “SUV” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “SUV”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–

• suw

Orthographic borrowing from English SUV.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuf/
• Rhymes: -uf
• Syllabification: SUV
• Homophones: sów, suw

SUV m inan or m animal

1. SUV (SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent)

• SUV in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• SUV in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• SUV in PWN's encyclopedia