Did you perchance mean kilo?
Definitions
Etymologies
- From the name of the company which made rubberised canvas air-mattresses from the 1940s to the 1970s under the trademark name "LI-LO" (perhaps from lie low). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It turns out "lilo" is a British term for what we Americans call an "air mattress.”
“In The London Eye Mystery, the lilo is what teenagers have to sleep on while Aunt Gloria gets a real bed.”
“Rob Levin [aka lilo] has passed away. at [Net | Tech | Media] 17 September, 2006”
“A possible etymology for "lilo" could start with the phrase "lie low," which then inspired the punning brand name "LI-LO" (established for decades), which in turn gave rise to the generic "lilo" for any air mattress.”
“So now I'm wondering when the term "lilo" became established -- perhaps from the brand name Li-lo.”
“A quick Google search showed me that the word "lilo" has several common meanings -- common as far as the internet is concerned:”
“Scott Beale says, "Rob Levin ( 'lilo'), the founder of the popular IRC network Freenode, passed away today at the age of 50 in Houston, TX.”
“You will need to use a boot loader program such as lilo or grub to load which ever os you want to run.”
“Once you have modified your '/ etc / lilo. conf' and written to the file be sure to run 'lilo' to modify.”
“Salim slept on the lilo next to my bed that night.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lilo’.
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Words that can be spelled on an upsid...
Imagine my joy when I was wearing my calculator watch and was first introduced to someone named Leslie - there was exactly enough room on the display for 317537.14.
Edit: I've discove...hi, hello, leslie, sheesh, she, bells, hells, hog, boss, goggles, he, bob and 233 more...
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British words
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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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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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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...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lilo.
kewpid Lindsay Lohan. Sep 28, 2008
jennarenn LOL. I absolutely thought I was going to find a Disney character list or something. Very interesting. May 9, 2007
knitandpurl inflatable mattresses for the beach/pool (U.K.) May 9, 2007