diablo meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

diablo

nounalso spelled Diablo

Etymology Borrowed from Spanish diablo (“devil”). Doublet of diabolo, devil, diable, and diabolus.

Southwestern, US The or a devil.

adj

Etymology Borrowed from Spanish diablo (“devil”). Doublet of diabolo, devil, diable, and diabolus.

Cooking, Food, Lifestyle Postpositional, Sometimes Synonym of diable (“flavored with hot spices/sauces”).

noun

Etymology Borrowed from Spanish diablo (“devil”).

A sports car made by the Italian manufacturer Lamborghini.

A Diablo wind.

[…]a Diablo Wind. A Diablo was responsible for the great Oakland-Berkeley fire of 1991. Earlier in this century Mill Valley in Marin County and Berkeley lost whole neighborhoods to northeaster fires. The winds are short in duration […]1998 02, McCormack's Guides, Incorporated, Marin, Napa, and Sonoma, McCormack's Guides, →ISBN:
[…]a Diablo wind drove flames through the Berkeley Hills and into the campus of the University of California. Some 3,100 acres and 584 houses burned. Ten years later a Diablo-driven fire scorched a thousand acres and five homes. In 1946[…]2016 March 31, Stephen J. Pyne, California: A Fire Survey, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 161:

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