POW is "prisoner of war", a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

POW or pow may also refer to:

Music

  • "P.O.W" (Bullet for My Valentine song) (2013)
  • "Pow", a 1992 song by the Beastie Boys from Check Your Head
  • "P.O.W. (Pissed Off White Boy)", a 1993 song by Beowülf from Un-Sentimental
  • "Pow", a 1978 song by Graham Central Station from My Radio Sure Sounds Good to Me
  • "POW", a 2009 song by Soulja Boy from The DeAndre Way
  • Pow (band), a South Korean boy band

Organizations

  • POW! Entertainment, a media production company
  • Polska Organizacja Wojskowa or Polish Military Organisation
  • Protect Our Winters, a non-profit environmental organization
  • Portorož Airport's IATA code

Television

  • P.O.W. (United States Steel Hour)
  • P.O.W. (TV series), a 2003 ITV mini-series
  • "P.O.W." (The Flash), an episode of The Flash
  • P.O.W. - Bandi Yuddh Ke, Indian political thriller television series

Other uses

  • P.O.W.: Prisoners of War, a 1988 arcade game that was ported to the NES console
  • Pow (surname)
  • pow function in C, the exponentiation function in the programming language C
  • Powys, county in Wales, Chapman code POW
  • Proof of work or PoW system
  • P.O.W; aka Prince of Wales

See also

  • Pow! (disambiguation)
  • Pow wow (disambiguation)
  • Prisoner of War (disambiguation)