Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stemless drinking cup, typically flaring outward toward the brim, traditionally used by the Inca and neighboring Andean peoples.
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- noun A type of wooden drinking vessel produced by the
Incas . - noun informal
kerosene .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"There was an accelerant type smell, like" kero ", or a diesel fuel sort of smell.
Latest Articles 2010
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"There was an accelerant type smell, like" kero ", or a diesel fuel sort of smell.
Latest Articles 2010
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"There was an accelerant type smell, like" kero ", or a diesel fuel sort of smell.
Latest Articles SBS News 2010
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'This chief, this Tummasook, hath a copper kettle, likewise a kero-sene can.'
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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As a normal thing, when he lost heat through the slow process of radiation-and a trifle through kero foam lined bootsoles-the latter demand was much the greater.
The Clique 2010
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It also means I know who is crossing the supposedly impassable mountain range and why and how that range can exist, and where the kero for lamps comes from, and...
gillpolack: I have all sorts of exciting things to r gillpolack 2009
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It also means I know who is crossing the supposedly impassable mountain range and why and how that range can exist, and where the kero for lamps comes from, and...
Even in a little thing gillpolack 2009
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Just think Hello Kitty, Kero-kero-pi, etc., and you get the picture.
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Just think Hello Kitty, Kero-kero-pi, etc., and you get the picture.
September 2006 2006
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When Tetsuo Akinaga entered one of a dozen apartments he kept for himself throughout Tokyo, the first thing he did was strip off his $3,500 imported suit-in fact, all his clothes-and, piling them into the kitchen sink, poured kero - sene over them and lit a match.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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