lino
/ˈlaɪnəʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage; Colloquial; Informal; Uncountable
noun
Acronym of Libertarian in name only, typically used by libertarian members of the U.S. Libertarian Party to describe Libertarians whose views perceived as insufficiently libertarian.
American usage; Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "But there was nobody at Kig and Kadgit's except the charwoman wiping over the “lino” in the passage."
- "The third thing was the TORN lino in the kitchen, new puppy found it great fun to tear strips of lino off the floor .. first you scrabble like crazy with your claws to start a tear, and then you use teeth to tear off a lovely strip of lino to chew . We are still too scared to replace the lino as the next puppy will probably do the same ."
- "When we moved here, the people before had dogs, complete with crawling carpet and jumping lino. When we ripped up all the carpet and lino prior to moving in, we also bought half a dozen flea bombs, and bombed UNDER the house."
- "I took up the lino from the kitchen and found this newspaper clipping"
- "Lino flagged a bit late but was right"
- "As Glenn Beck was bashing Sarvis as a GPS-installing LINO on his show,,^([sic]) his muckraking journalists at TheBlaze "revealed" that Sarvis was "bankrolled" by an "Obama bundler.""
Etymology
Usage
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- British usage
- Colloquial
- Informal
- Uncountable
- American usage
- Derogatory