Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A BIRO brand ballpoint pen.
- n. by extension, UK, New Zealand Any ballpoint pen.
- n. by extension Ink from a ballpoint pen.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a pen with small metal ball as point of transfer of ink to paper; same as ballpoint pen.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper
Etymologies
- From the BIRO brand of pens made by the BIC corporation, which were named after László Bíró, the inventor of the pen. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“She seemed to have Lord Mark Malloch-Brown's name biro'ed on her proverbial sleeve.”
“Redtabby - "biro" is used in England to mean a ballpoint pen.”
“When my children were young, I used to attach a little tag or a piece of white cotton ribbon - to scissors for ex - and write with black Bic biro the place where the object had to be returned to.”
“I kinda agree that it ould have being easier if God got a biro to write those books by self”
Examining Negative Quotations that affect women image/dignity/Fundamental Rights
“I bet if God had a biro things would have been different but men wrote those books.”
Examining Negative Quotations that affect women image/dignity/Fundamental Rights
“This week only, buy two biro ` s and get one free!”
“Stay safe, and whoever can nick an RBS biro and get a photo of it onto Gadgets blog wins a bag of doughnuts. on April 1, 2009 at 9: 02 pm | Reply It was like that when I signed for it”
Ready And Waiting….. and waiting, and waiting…. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
“He remembers embellishing a paperback edition of William Burroughs's Dead Fingers Talk with needle tracks in red biro, and as a teenager took up drinking and smoking with gusto.”
“I am listening to your day-tales, though I wonder that this time might be better spent mistranslating health warnings from foreign cigarettes and pasting them to a gallery wall or, perhaps, composing a biro haiku on the arch of a foot, proclaiming:”
“I take a notepad everywhere I go, have a tiny pad in my purse – with biro – and am not usually far away from my laptop. .god bless laptops … only wish I could justify roaming internet … jodicleghorn permalink”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘biro’.
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Penmanship
Spencerian method, Palmer method, Platt R. Spencer, cursive, round hand, running hand, handwriting, stylus, pen, vellum, penmanship, script and 86 more...
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genericized trademarks
Trademarked names that people use to refer to the thing in general, regardless of maker.
xerox, saran wrap, play-doh, silly putty, jell-o, crapper, band-aid, sharpie, biro, bic, zippo, thermos and 81 more...
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Life is just a four-letter word
Everyone's got their favorites. Here are some of mine.
snit, hobo, minx, kiln, loll, pelf, yegg, ugly, bumf, brio, biro, haha and 92 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, adware, airbus, alnico, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, atebrin, atebrine, autocue, autoharp and 774 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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English Words of Hungarian Origin
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braggadocio
an addendum or Anhang to Prolagus's list 'The braggadocio recipe'
amoeba, angina, antenna, aria, arnica, audio, aurora, biro, bronco, bubo, cafe, calico and 88 more...
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likes
biro, woozy, nevertheless, hearken, delectable, efficacious, lovely, if, interstellar, quibble, plush, oodles and 12 more...
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Vocabulary 3
desperate, trial, swerve, flower-pot, bracelet, pendant, drawer, plug, socket, cast, fluorescent tube, case and 55 more...
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Trade Names
rollerblade, zeppelin, kleenex, band-aid, tabasco, jell-o, trojans, rooty-tooty fresh..., xerox, google, velcro, coke and 39 more...
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Work
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Writing
adoxography, scripturient, well-thumbed, biro, riffle, flyleaf, quire, sheaf
Tweets
Looking for tweets for biro.
gabi ...and would you believed it, "biro" also means judge in Hungarian. There aren't too many occurrences, like this between the two languages. Why wold it be? Jan 11, 2012
bilby Loud invented Hawaian shirts too. Jan 10, 2011
PossibleUnderscore Although apparantly there was a very similar patent for a pen that could write on leather held by a gentleman named John Loud a couple of decades or so before (please correct me if I'm mistaken). Jan 10, 2011
frindley This household word (at least in my neck of the woods) is a fitting tribute to Hungarian Bíró László, who gave us the ballpoint pen. Jan 10, 2011
yarb Citation on doodle. Jul 23, 2008