1. : agent provocateur. 2. : one who provokes. a political provocateur. Did you know? In "provocateur," a word borrowed directly from French, one sees the English verb "provoke." Both "provoke" and "provocateur" derive from Latin provocare, meaning "to call forth." More @Wikipedia
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