English citations of PMV

Noun: "initialism of public motor vehicle" edit

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  • 1993, Tony Wheeler, Jon Murray, Papua New Guinea: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet, section "PUBLIC MOTOR VEHICLES (PMVs)":
    If you are a student, try for a student discount; this won't always be forthcoming, but it can be generous when it is. Wherever there are roads there will be PMVs.
  • 2007, Deepak Kumar Behera, Childhoods in South Asia, Pearson Education India (→ISBN), page 51:
    There are no motor vehicles in the village . To go to town ( Popendetta ) villagers must walk up to the main road and hope to get on to a public motor vehicle ( PMV ) . The PMVs often break down on the 60 minutes round - trip around the district ...
  • 2016, Lonely Planet, Lonely Planet Papua New Guinea & Solomon Islands, Lonely Planet (→ISBN)
    PMV (public motor vehicle) is the generic term for any type of public transport and wherever there are roads, there will be PMVs. Whether it's a dilapidated minibus, a truck with two facing wooden benches, a pickup with no seats whatsoever ...
  • 2021, Ellen Smith-Dennis, A Grammar of Papapana: An Oceanic Language of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG (→ISBN), page 53:
    [] due to Public Motor Vehicles (PMVs) travelling daily between Arawa and Buka, as well as local PMVs travelling around the Wakunai ... music videos, however, usage depended on whether they had money to fuel their generators and charge the devices.

Noun: "initialism of pony music video" edit

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  • 2013, Peter Berg, "My Little Pony takes Internet by storm", Young D.C., April 2013, page 7:
    On the other side, there are thousands of pony videos on sites like Youtube, including mashups with movies, fan-made show-quality animations with original voice acting, and Pony Music Videos or “PMVs” which sync up clips from the show with popular music.
  • 2014, Venetia Laura Delano Robertson, "Of ponies and men: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and the Brony fandom", International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 17, Issue 1 (2014):
    They design macro images (usually a screenshot of a pony, with a humorous caption), make fan art, write fan fiction, create their own Flash animations featuring the characters, and mash-up clips from the show with musical overlays (known as a PMV or ‘Pony Music Video’) or dialogue from videogames and cultfilms, even developing a 2D pony-themed combat computer game Fighting is Magic.
  • 2018, Shad Strehle, "Brony culture brings magic", The Collegian (Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI), 1 February 2018, page 16:
    "I'm a content creator," Custer said. "I take clips from the show and reinterpret them in the context of a piece of music to tell a story. They're called PMVs, or Pony Music Videos."
  • 2019, Andrew Crome, "Cosplay in the pulpit and ponies at prayer: Christian faith and lived religion in wider fan culture", Culture and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 20, Number 2 (2019), page 139:
    For Chris, this problem was not resolved through disassociating from fandom, but rather through fan content itself. Browsing pony music videos (PMVs) on YouTube, he recalled that ‘one of the PMVs actually had a Christian song under it, which literally had the message: ‘“Even if you can’t . . . Even if you can’t bring me anything thenI still don’t look down on you and love you”. And I could only hear that because I was watching PMVs.’
  • 2021, Daspacepony, Midair Pony Fair: Con Book:
    I am a PMV artist that has won several PMV contests from various conventions such as BronyCon, contributed in many ways to the PMV sub-community, and have worked with the likes of Sawtooth Waves and Ponies the Anthology.