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cro

UK/kɹəʊ/US/kɹoʊ/

cro noun: synonym of bro (“a male comrade or friend”).

Noun (1)

cro (plural cros)

  1. Synonym of bro (“a male comrade or friend”).
    • Every night, late night like I'm Jimmy Fallon / Cro shoot from anywhere like he Ray Allen2022 November 11, Drake, 21 Savage, “Circo Loco”, in Her Loss
    Synonyms:
    bro

Noun (2)

cro (uncountable)

  1. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) Synonym of marijuana.
    • Oh no, here we go, but I'm busy bagging my cro / Gotta go to my drum, but I got buds / So let me just have a quick smoke (quick smoke)2017 March 26, SL, “Gentleman”

Proper noun capitalized: CRO

CRO

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Croatia.

Noun (3) capitalized: CRO

CRO (plural CROs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, life sciences) Initialism of Contract research organization.
    • This thesis deals in general with mergers & acquisitions in the CRO industry, and more specifically with reasons for M&A, success factors during the M&A process, and why M&A can fail in the Contract Research Organization industry.2013, Jakob Miera, Mergers & Acquisitions in the Contract Research Organization Industry, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 1
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of COMSEC responsible officer.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of conversion rate optimization.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of chief risk officer.
    • The chief risk officer (CRO) title first appeared in a 1988 Peat Marwick study on global capital markets. The first CRO was James Lam of GE Capital, in 1993.2009, John Hampton, Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management […] , AMACOM, →ISBN, page 265
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of chief research officer.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of chief revenue officer.
  8. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of chief reputation officer.
  9. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of chief restructuring officer.

Synonyms of cro

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Forms of cro

pluralcros
pluralCROs

Origin of cro

From c- (“Crip”) + bro.

Clipping of chronic (“marijuana”).

Words that rhyme with cro

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about cro

What does cro mean?
Cro means synonym of bro (“a male comrade or friend”).
What part of speech is cro?
Cro can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cro?
Cro is pronounced /kɹəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of cro?
The plural of cro is cros.

Words near cro in the dictionary

  1. Crnac
  2. CRNAs
  3. Crnkovich
  4. Crnkoviches
  5. Crnt.
  6. cro
  7. Cro-Magnard
  8. Cro-Magnards
  9. Cro-Magnid
  10. Cro-Magnoid
  11. Cro-Magnon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cro (page history and authors); CRO (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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