Provocation, provoke or provoked may refer to:

• Provocation (legal), a type of legal defense in court which claims the "victim" provoked the accused's actions
• Agent provocateur, a (generally political) group that tries to goad a desired response from the group or otherwise disrupt its activity
• Provocation test, a way of medical testing for conditions such as an allergy by provoking the immune system's response
• Provoke (album), a 1998 album by Altar and their final release on Displeased Records
• Provoker (band), an American post-punk band
• Provoke (magazine), a Japanese photography and arts magazine, 1967–1968
• Provoked (film), a 2007 British film starring Aishwarya Rai and Naveen Andrews
• Provoked (Henry Rollins album), a 2008 album by Henry Rollins
• Provoked (Sunny Sweeney album), a 2014 album by Sunny Sweeney
• Provoke (horse), a racehorse

• False flag operation