arvo
noun
- period of the day after 12:00pm and before approximately 6:00pm, depending on the time of sunset and time of year
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɐː.vəʉ/ / /ˈɑː(ɹ).vəʊ/
name
- Initialism of Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
noun
Etymology: Clipping of afternoon + -o (“colloquialising suffix”).
- Afternoon.
““Rope and tomahawk,” explained Col. “We put them here this arvo when I came down and whistled first time.””
“The usual reaction of a footsoldier observing such incidents is well summed up by the comments of Private Derrick in the Salient at Tobruk: ‘Seen a human side of the war yesterday arvo Red Cross partys [sic] burying dead & treating wounded one of our partys were fired on by enemy & I will always remember it’.⁵⁰”