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dino, n. colloq.|ˈdaɪnəʊ|
Pl. dinos, (rarely) dinoes.
[Abbrev.]
A dinosaur. Freq. used attrib.
1936F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxiv. 250 Hanging near a window..was the petrified rib of a rhoetosaurus dinosaur... Mrs Finn told us that dinoes used to patronize the mud baths of Central Australia, but that this particular one hadn't touched water for thousands of years. 1981Washington Post 4 Dec. (Weekend section) 5/3 Clips from ‘One Million Years, B.C.’, ‘The Land Time Forgot’, and other dino classics show how Hollywood brought beast and man together, despite the 60-million-year gap between the former's extinction and the latter's evolution. 1987Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 21 Feb. 24/3 They have also used the hysterically bad footage from the film Caveman, which shows Ringo Starr saving Shelley Long from the jaws of a vile dino by feeding it an intoxicating herb. 1990Sci. Amer. Dec. 100/1 Illustrated chapters recount dino classification and dino biology, summarize museums and finds worldwide, and present a long list of dinosaurologists by name and accomplishment. 1994K. Kelly Out of Control xvi. 312 The absolutely neat thing about the dinosaurs in the movie Jurassic Park is that they possess enough artificial life so that they can be reused as cartoon dinos in a Flintstones movie. |