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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
kilo
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be 5 kilos/20 pounds etc overweight
▪ I’m about 15 pounds overweight right now.
shed pounds/kilos (=to lose this amount of weight)
▪ I needed to shed a few pounds.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
produce
▪ My ten foot span model can produce something like 150 kilos of lift.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ One case in Louisiana involved the seizure of 275 kilos of cocaine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At Buitoni we go even further and blend a full five eggs - quality controlled and fully pasteurised - into each kilo.
▪ Each of the six weighed half a kilo so I was glad John came to meet me on arrival.
▪ Highest price steer per kilo 148.5, R. Jones, Cae Isaf.
▪ It was just my luck to have bags made of light nylon, weighing in at ten kilos in total.
▪ July 4: 300 kilos of cannabis resin and herbal cannabis worth up to £3m seized from a Northern Ireland-registered lorry in Dover.
▪ On average, each person can expect to get just 8 kilos of food every 2 weeks.
▪ Shouldn't he order a kilo?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kilo

Kilo \Ki"lo\, n.; pl. Kilos. [F.] An abbreviation of Kilogram.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kilo

1870, shortening of kilogram. Slang shortening key (in drug trafficking) is attested from 1968.

Wiktionary
kilo

n. (short form of kilogram English)

WordNet
kilo

n. one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; "a kilogram is approximately 2.2 pounds" [syn: kilogram, kg]

Wikipedia
Kilo

Kilo may refer to:

  • kilo-, a prefix meaning a thousand
  • Kilo, Espoo, a district of Espoo, Finland
    • Kilo railway station, a commuter rail network in Kilo, Espoo, Finland
  • KILO, a Colorado radio station
  • Kilo class submarine, the NATO reporting name for a type of Russian submarine
  • Kilo Ali or Kilo, a rapper from Atlanta, Georgia
  • Kilogram or kilogramme, a metric unit of mass
  • Men's 1 km Time Trial or Kilo, a cycling track time trial
  • Kilo, the letter K in the ICAO spelling alphabet
  • El Kilo, an album by the Cuban hip hop group Orishas
    • El Kilo (song), a song from this album
  • Kilo is a common Arabic family name including:
    • Michel Kilo, Syrian Christian writer and human rights activist
    • Wiz Kilo, a Syrian Canadian hip hop and electronic artist
  • Kilo Kish, an American singer/songwriter

Usage examples of "kilo".

Not surprisingly, Ake lost his balance and tumbled to the ground, disappearing under hundreds of kilos of insistent scout dogs.

I shall put on about twenty kilos - I have a suit and shirt designed to cope with the excess avoirdupois -fatten my cheeks, tint hair and moustache, wear a sinister scar and a black leather glove.

In his own evil way, Bill Crum must have had loyalties and, for him, a kilo of gold was peanuts.

In one pass, a fine-mesh fyke net with a motorized winch can pull in nine to fifteen hundred kilos.

Then the man bought a kilo of swordfish, paid for it, and went home, his head singing with the kif he had smoked.

The leftmost platoon of Kilo Company had already broken into an arm of open land that poked into the swamp.

The indication is that he was the man who paid one kilo of gold to get Van Luk Wan released.

The field was rated at a thousand kilos and there was no way a man or mue, no matter how string, could break its grip.

Pedas were the simplest, most common sweetmeat, available daily in the mithaigalli of any part of the city for a few paisa a kilo.

He and his comrades had loaded more than fifty kilos of high explosive and a timer under the seat of the pedicab and in the steel tubing of the frame.

We paused only to plug detonators into the four kilos of plastique that we had previously molded around sheaves of water, gas, and other pipes that crossed or paralleled some portions of the tunnels.

We crossed the domed chamber, pausing four times to deposit the last four kilos of plastique among the machinery.

When at last we released the vacuole, or it collapsed, released our reprieved lives, the very subatomic particles we were made of would become literally the last things in all the cosmos, and in further trillions and gazillions of frigid years even their feeble few kilos would have evaporated to nothingness.

Kilo for Kilo, the shell was as valuable as purpose-designed microchips from factories operating across the Miffor.

This morning I went to the meat counter and they were selling mortadella sausage at 168 roubles a kilo.