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duco
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English
Etymology
From a 1920s trade name for automotive lacquer.
Noun
duco (uncountable)
- (Australia, automotive, colloquial) Automotive paint.
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 35:
- A green four-wheel drive, its duco iridescent in the winter sunlight like the carapace of some mythical beetle come to rest there, was parked by the side of a ripple-iron tank set back from the riverbank.
Verb
duco (third-person singular simple present ducos, present participle ducoing, simple past and past participle ducoed)
- (Australia, automotive, colloquial, transitive) To paint with automotive paint.
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