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-spo
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SPO spo spö spò
English
Etymology
From en inspo, a clipping of en inspiration. Popularised by en thinspo.
Pronunciation
en /-spəʊ/ UK
en /-spoʊ/ US
en əʊ 2
Suffix
en informal Forms words to describe content (usually on social media) intended as inspiration to achieve a certain goal.
en 2016 Cat Pausé; Jackie Wykes; Samantha Murray Queering Fat Embodiment Routledge 9781317072485 By tagging representations of positive fatness as fatspo, they disrupt the discourse on what bodies are aspirational.
en 2018 Laura Thomas Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food Boxtree 9781760784515 For a lot of people, their social media feeds have disproportionate levels of fitspo or healthspo; they're not reflective of our overall interests.
en 2020 Pixie Turner The Insta-Food Diet: How Social Media has Shaped the Way We Eat Head of Zeus Ltd 9781788547208 Searches for #proana, #thinspiration, or #bonespo (used for 'inspiring' images of people with visible bones) won't show any results at all, even though the tags are still widely in use.
Derived terms
en
Anagrams
en ops sop ops Ops OPS PSO POs OPs POS pos PoS SOP /pos S.O.P.