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premo

premo adjective: excellent, attractive.

Adjective

premo (comparative more premo, superlative most premo)

  1. (US, rare, slang) Excellent, attractive.
    • Like, you know, this guy at the dance was like soooo foxy mondo!! Like totally awesome. He could have been like a model for like GQ, for sure! He was premo[,] definitely not a zod.1983, “Candidly Gannon”, in Lance, volume 32, Erie, P.A.: Gannon University, page 121
    • I wish they would have shown much more of Nancy Vee and you when you did the initial g/g in the car... what little we saw was premo, absolutely premo!1998 May 31, voya...@ix.netcom.com, “tina tyler posts again”, in rec.arts.movies.erotica (Usenet)

Proper noun capitalized: Premo

Premo (plural Premos)

  1. A surname.

Forms of premo

Adjective
comparativemore premo
superlativemost premo
Proper noun
pluralPremos

Origin of premo

Clipping of premium + -o, or a variant form of primo (“best, first-class”).

From the French surname, Americanized from Primeau.

Questions about premo

What does premo mean?
Premo means excellent, attractive.
What part of speech is premo?
Premo can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near premo in the dictionary

  1. premièring
  2. premmie
  3. premmies
  4. premnaspirodiene
  5. premnaspirodiene oxygenase
  6. premo
  7. premobilization
  8. premodern
  9. premodernism
  10. premodernisms
  11. premodernity

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