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lilo

/ˈlaɪləʊ/

lilo noun: an inflatable air mattress.

Noun

lilo (plural lilos)

  1. (South Africa, UK) An inflatable air mattress.

Adjective capitalized: LILO

LILO (not comparable)

  1. last in last out (see FIFO)
  2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of left in, left out, a type of three-way road intersection.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: LiLo

LiLo

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of Li-Lo (“Lindsay Lohan”).
    • I mean, who cares if LiLo (Lindsay Lohan) has been caught doped (again!) or how low Delta Goodrem's neckline plunges each year in her appearance as judge on The Voice show? […]2016 January 5, Madhumita Thakur, The Other World: Tales from Southern Hemisphere, PartridgePublishing, →ISBN
    • LiLo started acting when she was just three years old, and by the late 1990s she'd starred in a slew of Disney films, including The Parent Trap and Freaky Friday.2012 February 14, Hallie Fryd, Scandalous!: 50 Shocking Events You Should Know About, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 173

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Lilo

Lilo

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of Li-Lo (“Lindsay Lohan”).

Forms of lilo

plurallilos
alternative formli-lo

Origin of lilo

From the name of the company which made rubberised canvas air-mattresses from the 1940s to the 1970s under the trademark name "Li-Lo" (a sensational spelling of lie low).

Words that rhyme with lilo

Questions about lilo

What does lilo mean?
Lilo means an inflatable air mattress.
What part of speech is lilo?
Lilo can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lilo?
Lilo is pronounced /ˈlaɪləʊ/.
What is the plural of lilo?
The plural of lilo is lilos.

Words near lilo in the dictionary

  1. Lillyanna
  2. Lillyanne
  3. lillypillies
  4. lillypilly
  5. Lillys
  6. lilo
  7. Liloan
  8. Lilongwe
  9. lilopristone
  10. lilos
  11. Liloy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lilo (page history and authors); LILO (page history and authors); LiLo (page history and authors); Lilo (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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