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casco

casco noun: a flat-bottomed, square-ended boat once used in the Philippines as a lighter to ferry goods between ship and shore.

Noun (1)

casco (plural cascos)

  1. A flat-bottomed, square-ended boat once used in the Philippines as a lighter to ferry goods between ship and shore

Proper noun capitalized: Casco

Casco (countable and uncountable, plural Cascos)

  1. A surname.
  2. A town and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, Maine.
  3. A township in Allegan County, Michigan.
  4. A township in St. Clair County, Michigan.
  5. A ghost town in Franklin County, Missouri.
  6. A town and village therein, in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.

Noun (2) capitalized: CASCO

CASCO (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of casualty and collision (“a class of motor vehicle insurance”).

Forms of casco

Noun
pluralcascos
Proper noun
pluralCascos

Origin of casco

Borrowed from Spanish casco. Doublet of cask and casque.

Questions about casco

What does casco mean?
Casco means a flat-bottomed, square-ended boat once used in the Philippines as a lighter to ferry goods between ship and shore.
What part of speech is casco?
Casco can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of casco?
The plural of casco is cascos.

Words near casco in the dictionary

  1. Casciatos
  2. Cascio
  3. Cascio track
  4. Cascio tracks
  5. Cascios
  6. casco
  7. cascode
  8. cascoded
  9. cascodes
  10. cascoding
  11. Cascone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: casco (page history and authors); Casco (page history and authors); CASCO (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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