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Lino

//ˈlaɪnəʊ// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Clipping of linoleum. Australia, New-Zealand, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, informal, uncountable, usually

    "But there was nobody at Kig and Kadgit's except the charwoman wiping over the “lino” in the passage."

  2. 2
    Abbreviation of linesman. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, informal, uncountable, usually

    "Lino flagged a bit late but was right"

  3. 3
    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. US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, derogatory

    "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.""

  4. 4
    a floor covering wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Clipping of linoleum, probably influenced by -o (“diminutive suffix”).

Etymology 2

Contraction of linesman + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

Etymology 3

Modelled after RINO (“Republican in name only”).

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