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Definition of kero in English: keronoun ˈkɛrəʊ mass nounAustralian, NZ informal Kerosene. the kero cost a small fortune and we could only have one lamp lit Example sentencesExamples - Recycle beer or other decorative bottles into tumblers by soaking a piece of garden twine in kero and tying around the bottle at the point you want to separate.
- Well, kero was an old-fashioned treatment that worked with a bang as we discovered for ourselves when out on nursing calls.
- Grandma dragged out the old tin bath, sat each kid in it, and treated the outbreak with kero.
- Pours a little kero on the conspiracy fire, though, doesn't it?
- Where the heck did I leave my kero for the torches again?
- Some of these engines pumped water, while even more burbled away on kero and did. .. something.
- It cost less to produce than petrol, but being less volatile, kero has to be heated before entering the combustion chamber.
- He just passes the kero to Philip, and again the fire rages.
- Time to break out the effigies and kero.
- I make jokes about bathing in kero for nasty crawly rashes, even though there was a case years ago about nursing home residents being bathed in it to treat scabies.
Origin Early 20th century: abbreviation of kerosene. |