Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fibro

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English

Syllables: fi-bro
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.

Australian usage; Uncountable

noun

Informal; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Her house was a little grey fibro job. Nondescript really, with cracked and broken fibro louvres, sad and sorry walls."
"There are a few faded colourless fibro buildings, jagged black holes punched here and there in the panels."
"When I got fibro, the Internet was not in common use, so I didn't have the resources that a newly diagnosed person would have now."

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Usage

Questions

What does fibro mean?: Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.
Where does fibro come from?: Abbreviations.

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