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duco

duco noun: automotive paint.

Noun

duco (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) Automotive paint.
    • A green four-wheel drive, its duco iridescent in the winter sunlight like the carapace of some mythical beetle come to rest there, was parked by the side of a ripple-iron tank set back from the riverbank.2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 35

Verb

duco (third-person singular simple present ducos, present participle ducoing, simple past and past participle ducoed)

  1. (Australia, colloquial, transitive) To paint with automotive paint.

Forms of duco

third-person singular presentducos
present participleducoing
past participleducoed
pastducoed

Origin of duco

From a 1920s trade name for automotive lacquer.

Questions about duco

What does duco mean?
Duco means automotive paint.
What part of speech is duco?
Duco can be a noun or a verb.

Words near duco in the dictionary

  1. Duckworth-Lewis
  2. Duckworth-Lewis method
  3. Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method
  4. Duckworths
  5. ducky
  6. duco
  7. ducoed
  8. Ducoin
  9. ducoing
  10. Ducoings
  11. Ducon

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