doco
English
Etymology
From documentary + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɒ.kəʊ/
- Rhymes: -ɒkəʊ
Noun
doco (plural docos)
- (UK, Australia, informal) Abbreviation of documentary.
- 1994, Phillip Adams, Classic Columns, page 144:
- Seibert has many complaints about nature docos, not the least of which is the music that seems to suggest that animals are constantly shadowed by symphony orchestras.
- 1999, Reptiles, Volume 7, page 20,
- Now we spend about a third of our time in the US working on docos, working with US wildlife.
- 2000, Tom Kenny, Sound for Picture: Film Sound through the 1990s, page 160:
- I started thinking that I had to get back to where I was when I was put into the field to do docos [documentaries] and put in situations to capture sound as simply as I could and be sure to get what I could get.
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- (computing, informal) Abbreviation of documentation.
- - Can you use asterisks in a filename?
- I don't know. Check the doco.
- - Can you use asterisks in a filename?
Anagrams
- cood