Crossword clues for biro
biro
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biro \Biro\ n. [from the name of the inventor.] a pen with small metal ball as point of transfer of ink to paper; same as ballpoint pen.
Syn: ballpoint, ballpoint pen, ballpen.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
proprietary name of a type of ball-point pen, 1947, from László Bíró, the Hungarian inventor. The surname means "judge."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A ''BIRO'' brand ballpoint pen. 2 (context by extension UK AU NZ English) Any ballpoint pen. 3 (context by extension English) Ink from a ballpoint pen.
Wikipedia
Bíró is a Hungarian surname meaning "judge". Notable people with the name include:
- László Bíró, (1899-1985), the inventor of the ballpoint pen
- Lajos Bíró, a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
- Charles Biro, a comic book writer.
- Sari Biro, pianist
- Val Biro, a children's book writer and artist
Usage examples of "biro".
For some unaccountable reason, the Yanks had also given him handfuls of Biros and combs.
Carmichael had over a dozen biros protruding from his back, and lay sprawled on the floor beneath his desk.
There were several receipts and credit-card flimsies in the drawer, none less than a week old, and pens, pencils and biros in profusion.
And had there been one present, and had he brought his Biro and notebook with him, he would probably have penned something of this nature.
Grinning, the old man set a metal company biro on the concrete floor and watched as it started to spin, faster and faster.
Instead of using a cybofax, a paper notebook was balanced on his leg, the tip of his gold-plated Parker biro flicking constantly, producing a minute shorthand.
The biro itself now struck you as gnawed, cracked and capless, and paranoid, conscious of its disadvantage.
Richard found a bit of hotel notepaper and a hotel biro and dragged up a chair.
Our lives, they harbour form, artistic shape, and we want our form revealed even though we only move in our detail, with keys, spongebag, coffee-cups, shirt drawer, chequebooks, linen, hairstyle, curtain-rod holders, fridge guarantee, biros, buttons, money.
Beneath that in Ford Prefect's satchel were a few biros, a notepad, and a largish bath towel from Marks and Spencer.
One of these (the one Arthur now came across) supposedly relates the experiences of one Veet Voojagig, a quiet young student at the University of Maximegalon, who pursued a brilliant academic career studying ancient philology, transformational ethics and the wave harmonic theory of historical perception, and then, after a night of drinking Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters with Zaphod Beeblebrox, became increasingly obsessed with the problem of what had happened to all the biros he'd bought over the past few years.
She was wearing a very expensive pink T-shirt, pinched from Maud at half-term, over which all her friends had written messages in biro, a puffball skirt, laddered tights and black clumpy stompers, and was now eating muesli out of a cup with a teaspoon.
She was wearing peacock feather earrings, a black and white sleeveless T-shirt, a black Lycra mini which just covered her bottom, laddered black tights, huge black clumpy shoes, all of which belonged to various friends of hers, a great deal of black eye make-up, and messages in Biro all over her arms.