Fibro

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

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Noun
  1. 1
    Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets. Australia, uncountable

    "Her house was a little grey fibro job. Nondescript really, with cracked and broken fibro louvres, sad and sorry walls."

  2. 2
    Fibromyalgia. informal, uncountable

    "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."

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"Her house was a little grey fibro job. Nondescript really, with cracked and broken fibro louvres, sad and sorry walls."

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