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dealio

dealio is the alternative form of dillio.

Meaning of dillio

Noun

dillio (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang) The deal; that which is current, relevant, or taking place.
    • I am having an incredibly time getting my sound recorder to work and would appreciate any possible insight available. Here's the dillio, the microphone is properly hooked up to the sound card. I can hear the sound through the PC speakers and the microphone volume is up just loud enough to fend off...1998, Chris, “Sound Advice....”, in news.newusers.questions (Usenet)

Questions about dealio

What is dealio the alternative form of?
Dealio is the alternative form of dillio.

Words near dealio in the dictionary

  1. dealing it out
  2. dealing out
  3. dealing to
  4. dealing with
  5. dealings
  6. dealio
  7. dealkylase
  8. dealkylases
  9. dealkylate
  10. dealkylated
  11. dealkylates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dealio (page history and authors); dillio (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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