PIV

See also: piv

English

Adjective

PIV

1. (medicine) Initialism of peripheral intravenous.

Noun

PIV (countable and uncountable, plural PIVs)

1. (pathology) Abbreviation of parainfluenza virus.
2. (optics) Initialism of particle image velocimetry.
3. (electronics) Initialism of peak inverse voltage.
4. Initialism of penis in vagina.
   • 2010 April 30, Libby Bennett with Ginger Holczer, Finding & Revealing Your Sexual Self: A Guide to Communicating About Sex‎^[1], Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →OL, pages 130–131:

     Therefore, younger couples would be wise to stay open to other types of sexual scenarios, not limiting their sexual interaction to only PIV.

   • 2010 December 17, Jess C Scott, Take-Out (Part 1), jessINK, →ISBN, →OL:

     To make things worse, it tormented him that he still considered himself a virgin—he'd received oral sex—but never given PIV sex a try.

   • 2014, Michelle Marie, "Fucking", Bluestockings, Spring 2014, page 36:

     Repudiating PIV (penis in vagina) and grappling with most forms of penetration, except orally under certain conditions, means for me the unmitigated physical rawness of fucking is not a part of my life.

5. (LGBT) Initialism of penile inversion vaginoplasty.

Derived terms

• hPIV (human parainfluenza virus)
• PIV5/PIV-5 (parainfluenza virus 5)

Anagrams

• IPV, V.I.P., VIP

Esperanto

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Proper noun

PIV

1. Initialism of Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto, an Esperanto dictionary

Derived terms

• nePIVa