- prisoner of war.
interjection
- an exclamation imitative of a collision, explosion, etc
noun
- Scot the head or a head of hair
noun
- Scot a creek or slow stream
abbreviation for
- prisoner of war
also POW, initialism for prisoner of war, coined 1919 but not common until World War II. expression imitative of a blow, collision, etc., first recorded 1881.