avo

¹ American  

[a-voh, ah-voh] / ˈæ voʊ, ˈɑ voʊ /

noun

Informal.

1. avocado.

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avo ² American  

[ah-voo] / ˈɑ vu /

noun

plural

avos

1. a money of account of Macao, one 100th of a pataca.

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Etymology

Origin of avo¹

First recorded in 2000–05; by shortening

Origin of avo²

First recorded in 1905–10; from Portuguese: literally, “trifle,” shortening of oitavo “eighth”; octave

Example Sentences

Long before avo toast became obligatory on American brunch menus, it was big in Australia, where newspapers mentioned it as far back as 1929 and a Sydney cafe began serving it in the early 1990s.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2021

For all the marketing muscle that has been flexed to popularise the avocado, the UK’s love of avo toast seems natural, unforced and indicative of a wider, meat-free shift in dining habits.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2019

Great avo toast requires a practised hand, a lot of high-quality components and, perhaps most difficult of all given their ridiculously short window of optimum edibility, ripe avocados.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2019

The avo toast rocks charred corn and tomato salsa, the salmon and eggs come with roasted zucchini, and the stone fruit and fresh burrata salad is as good as summer gets.

From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2019

Si status de franco tenemento datur avo, et in codem facto si mediate vel immediate datur haeredibus vel haeredibus corporis dicti avi, postrema, haec verba sunt Limitations, non Perquisitionis.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary