poss adj.
possible.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | in Pills to Purge Melancholy V 329: Drunk I was last Night that’s poss. | |
 | ‘The Dolls’ ‘Pomes’ from the Pink ’Un 24: While the public morals-shaper Thinks of writing to the paper To upset the show, if pos [F&H]. | |
| ‘The Rhyme of the Rusher’ in Sporting Times 29 Oct. n.p.: At the first big pub I resolved, if pos., / That I’d sample my lucky star. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Euroa Advertiser (Vic.) 26 Apr. n.p.: What about the shortening of words, like ‘poss’ for possible? | |
| Gem 4 Nov. 4: ‘Yaas, it’s quite poss.,’ he remarked. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | letter 4 May in Paige (1971) 177: Will let you know as soon as pos. | |
| Adventures of Mrs. May 180: You gotter make it pay. You got to get as much outer it as poss. if yer the top of the perfesh. | |
| Roll On My Twelve 37: We’re going to have it patch up, if poss. | |
| Jimmy Brockett 168: I’ll pay, but you keep it down as low as poss. | |
| Diaries (1986) 28 July 259: We must get back there as soon as poss. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Glide Time 51: If you could get them along as soon as poss. | |
| Guardian G2 16 Nov. 7: That’s why I vamoosed, quick as poss, and married John. | |
| Apples (2023) 1250: [I’d] get out of the relationship as quickly as poss. | |
| Viva La Madness 210: ‘What shall I tell Sonny?’ ‘As little as poss’. |
In phrases
(Aus.) a phr. used to denote the speaker’s denial of chance / opportunity.
| Brisbane Courier 29 May 6/3: They have ‘Buckley’s’, ‘no poss,’ or ‘no earthly’. |