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refidex

refidex noun: any street directory.

Noun

refidex (plural refidexes)

  1. (Australia, informal) Any street directory.
    • And with a refidex in the glovebox, she couldn't see any huge problems.1997, Melissa Lucashenko, Steam pigs, page 76
    • The refidex shows that Clayfield and Hendra are 500 metres apart, and "Airport" and "Eagle Farm" are 1.1km apart.1998 December 10, Roy Wilke, “Shortest distance between stations”, in aus-rail (Usenet)

Examples of refidex in a sentence

  • The meetings themselves are held in Hawken Building at UQ (building 50 on the campus refidexes), and the next one will be Saturday week.1999 April 6, Ben Fowler, “Linux user groups for Brisbane??I”, in aus.computers.linux (Usenet):
  • For somebody who isn't used to reading a refidex she does a damn fine job.2001 December 28, Cruiser, “The Week in Review (v long)”, in alt.ozdebate (Usenet):
  • Even when UBD (Universal Business Directory’s) bought out Refidex, they continued to put Refidex on the front cover.2010, https://groups.google.com/group/daily_devotionals/browse_thread/thread/f6671e669a0de4cc/8cc50e20e115de5d?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=refidex#8cc5...

Forms of refidex

pluralrefidexes
alternative formRefidex

Origin of refidex

From the name (Refidex) of a particular brand of street directory, possibly from a blend of reference + index.

Questions about refidex

What does refidex mean?
Refidex means any street directory.
How do you use refidex in a sentence?
The meetings themselves are held in Hawken Building at UQ (building 50 on the campus refidexes), and the next one will be Saturday week.
What part of speech is refidex?
Refidex is a noun.
What is the plural of refidex?
The plural of refidex is refidexes.

Words near refidex in the dictionary

  1. refiddled with
  2. refiddles
  3. refiddles with
  4. refiddling
  5. refiddling with
  6. refidex
  7. refidexes
  8. refight
  9. refighting
  10. refights
  11. refigurate

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