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doco en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdɒ.kəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree French documentairebor. English documentary Latin ō Old French ohbor. Middle English o English O English oh English -o English doco From documentary + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

Meanings

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, informal) Abbreviation of documentary.
   alt of documentary
   • Now we spend about a third of our time in the US working on docos, working with US wildlife. 1999, Reptiles, volume 7, page 20:
   • Seibert has many complaints about nature docos, not the least of which is the music that seems to suggest that animals are constantly shadowed by symphony orchestras. 1994, Phillip Adams, Classic Columns, page 144:
   • I started thinking that I had to get back to where I was when I was put into the field to do docos [documentaries] and put in situations to capture sound as simply as I could and be sure to get what I could get. 2000, Tom Kenny, Sound for Picture: Film Sound through the 1990s, page 160:
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, informal) Abbreviation of documentation.
   alt of documentation
   • - Can you use asterisks in a filename? - I don't know. Check the doco.

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