flanno

noun

flanno

noun

Etymology From flannel + -o.

1

Australia, Informal, Often A flannelette shirt.

  • When I started teaching I thought I'd better dress like an adult, so I bought lots of 'grown-up' clothes. […] They were replaced with jeans, T-shirts, flannos, sweatshirts and, in Canberra, duffle coats and beanies.2012, Ned Manning, Playground Duty, page 94:
  • There is a general notion of how this stereotype dresses (flannos and ugg boots and mullet hairdos) and eats (pizza and Coke).2014, Susan Butler, The Aitch Factor:
Synonyms
flannie

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