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    [Noun]  | "pro*vo*ca*teur" | \ prō-ˌvä-kə-ˈtər \


    1: agent provocateur

    2: one who provokes


    Origin: 1919 ;

    [Noun]  | "agent pro*vo*ca*teur" | \ ˈä-ˌzhäⁿ-prō-ˌvä-kə-ˈtər \


    1: one employed to associate with suspected persons and by pretending sympathy with their aims to incite them to some incriminating action


    Origin: 1845 ;

     Borrowed from French, literally, "provoking agent";

    [Noun]  | "provocateurs" 


    1: a person who stirs up public feelings especially of discontent;


      * e.g., " ... a calculating provocateur, she has made a career out of controversy for its own sake "



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    [Noun]  | "provocateur" 


    1: a person who stirs up public feelings especially of discontent;


      * e.g., " ... a calculating provocateur, she has made a career out of controversy for its own sake "



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     [ "Provocateur in Chief" ]

    1: Another increasingly popular nickname for the 45th POTUS.

      * e.g.,  ... Pouring gasoline on the flames of civil disobedience is the forte of the Provocateur in Chief. 

     [ "social provocateur" ]

    1: One who promote social events and fundraisers while also attending and donating their time to facilitate and raise community awareness.

      * e.g.,  ... Strat sure is a social provocateur, he wont shut up about these free wine parties, what a douche. 


     [ "social provocateur" ]

    2: Usually promotes free events that provide food and alcohol, what more do you want?

     [ "Agent Provocateur" ]

    1: A London company selling sexy and sophisticated lingerie and accessories, owned by Joseph Corre, (a son of famous fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, who was very sucessful being Sex Pistol's manager) who is also its chief designer. AP promotes sexual explicity, presented by Kylie Minogue in the famous AP commercial where she had been riding an electric bull.

      * e.g.,  ... She looked tempting as hell dressed up in Agent Provocateur's lingerie. 

     [ "Agent provocateur" ]

    1: shit-stirrer

      * e.g.,  ... Milo Yiannopoulos is an Agent provocateur; he doesn't seem to really have an objective opinion, only says things to piss people off and thereby increase his notoriety. While some of the things he says do seem quite rational and logical, he merely repeats other people's controversial ideas. 

     [ "dickhead-provocateur" ]

    1: A person who acts as a provocateur for no reason other than to be a dickhead.

      * e.g.,  ... Bob: Did you hear Donald Trump Jr. tell the crowd that "This isn't their Republican Party any more; it is Donald Trump's Republican Party" ? Amy: Just ignore that dickhead-provocateur. We'll be done with him soon enough. 

     [ "Agent Provocateur" ]

    1: A pompous troll. Someone who, in their dotage, envokes views on race, gender politics, or popular culture in desperate hope for attention. Usually a formerly great mind, communicator and/or broadcaster who has run ungraciously to insignificance. This is a self-defined term for an elderly person desperate for relevance. For example, this post

      * e.g.,  ... “That Brian Edwards used to be amazing. But since he’s taken to elderly pompous trolling, he describes himself as an Agent Provocateur” 

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