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abo

noun, adj — 4 senses

abo

nounalso spelled ABO

UK /ˈæb.əʊ/ · US /ˈæb.oʊ/

Etymology First attested in 1922, clipping of aborigine.

1

Australia, Ethnic, Offensive, Slang, Slur An Aboriginal person.

abo

adj

Etymology First attested in 1922, clipping of aborigine.

1

Derogatory Australian Aboriginal.

  • ‘The youngster will pick up the abo language faster than his own.’1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 210:

ABO

noun
1

Medicine, Sciences The most important blood type classification system for human blood transfusions.

2

Government, Military, Politics, War Abbreviation, Initialism Initialism of access, basing, overflight.

Derived terms
ABO group, ABO system

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for abo and ABO.