doco

Abbreviation of documentary.

Noun

  1. Abbreviation of documentary.
    • Seibert has many complaints about nature docos, not the least of which is the music that seems to suggest that animals are constantly shadowed by symphony orchestras. - 1994, Phillip Adams, Classic Columns, page 144:
    • Now we spend about a third of our time in the US working on docos, working with US wildlife. - 1999, Reptiles, volume 7, page 20:
    • I started thinking that I had to get back to where I was when I was put into the field to do docos [documentaries] and put in situations to capture sound as simply as I could and be sure to get what I could get. - 2000,...
  2. Abbreviation of documentation.
    • - Can you use asterisks in a filename? - I don't know. Check the doco.

Origin

Etymology tree French documentairebor. English documentary English -o English doco From documentary + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

Forms

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