Definition of "POS"

To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger.

2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, page 109

Unlimited technology from the whole universe, and we cruise 'round in a Ford P.O.S.

1997, Ed Solomon, Men in Black, spoken by Agent J (Will Smith)

Everything you lost was because you are a P.O.S,[sic] […]

2011, Sarreta “Whispers” Lopez, “I Have Recognized My Worth”, in I Have Arrived, AuthorHouse, page 69

I told him he is a POS for saying that to me (what a terrible thing to say to my husband! I am just as guilty sometimes for saying hurtful things), and how dare he try and hurt me in such a cruel way, telling me he hates me and wishing he could tell me he was unfaithful!

2014, Harmony Rose, Married Under the Influence: A True Story, Bloomington, IN: Archway Publishing, page 78

And you act in ways that make it right (i.e., voice says you’re a P.O.S., which makes you want the drugs, which makes you act selfishly, which gives you reason to feel like a P.O.S., which makes you want the drugs), because you don’t know what kind of person you’d be if you weren’t listening to this squawk, and you don’t know what else to do.

2015, Kenton Bartlett, “Change”, in The World Needs You (A Pep Talk), C.E. Press, page 387

There have been many times I’ve had to keep my mouth shut due to fear of something like this happening. I have been called a ‘hateful racist POS [piece of shit].’

2019 February 17, Kathrine Jebsen Moore, quoting Maria Tusken, “A Witch-hunt on Instagram”, in Claire Lehmann, editor, Quillette‎, Sydney, N.S.W., archived from the original on 2 March 2019