fibro
nounEtymology Abbreviations.
1
Australia Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.
- Her house was a little grey fibro job. Nondescript really, with cracked and broken fibro louvres, sad and sorry walls.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 322:
- There are a few faded colourless fibro buildings, jagged black holes punched here and there in the panels.2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 19:
2
Informal Fibromyalgia.
- When I got fibro, the Internet was not in common use, so I didn't have the resources that a newly diagnosed person would have now.2011, Linda Kay Mullinax, It's Okay to Hurt: My Life with Fibromyalgia, page 43: