keron.
/ˈkɛrəʊ/, U.S. /ˈkɛˌroʊ/ Australian and New Zealand colloquial.
= kerosene n.
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kero1930
isooctane1932
high-octane1933
hi-octane1933
Calor1936
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super1939
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1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Sept. 22/3 Never feed in troughs. With little stalls and cut-down kero.-tins..calves can be fed quickly enough for anybody.
1938 X. Herbert Capricornia ix. 129 Take it and buy some tucker and kero.
1957 ‘N. Culotta’ They're Weird Mob (1958) vi. 78 Pat threw in..a ‘kero tin’ of water.
1961 P. White Riders in Chariot xi. 411 The rusted kero stove.
1968 N.Z. Listener 15 Mar. 6/2 Just picture us flicking on lights (no candles and kero to mess with).
1970 M. Kelly Spinifex xv. 214 The fire's all right. I put out a quart of kero and there's stacks of green stuff.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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