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metho

metho noun: methylated spirits.

Noun

metho (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) Methylated spirits.
    • Ben Cropp, aided by his wife Lynn, tests the effectiveness of metho and vinegar against box jellyfish stings (above); see Ben′s foreword for details of the experiment.1985, Living Australia, photograph caption, Dangerous Australians: The Complete Guide to Australia's Most Deadly Creatures, page 61
    • We thought an alcoholic was a low life, someone on metho, or a benighted person who drank a bottle of gin before breakfast. Not us.1988, Kate Jennings, Cold Water, Save Me, Joe Louis, reprinted 2010, Trouble: Evolution of a Radical, Selected Writings 1970-2010, page 78

Origin of metho

From methylated spirits + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

Questions about metho

What does metho mean?
Metho means methylated spirits.
What part of speech is metho?
Metho is a noun.

Words near metho in the dictionary

  1. Methley Junction
  2. Methlick
  3. methlyome
  4. methmouth
  5. methmouths
  6. metho
  7. metho-
  8. methocarbamol
  9. methoctramine
  10. method
  11. method acting

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