alco

See also: ALCO, Alco, and alço

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Etymology 1

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Noun

alco (plural alcos)

  1. A small South American dog, domesticated by the natives. Apparently the species has since gone extinct.
    • 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. lxxviii-lxxix,
      […] the alco, a mute little dog, caressing and sequacious, once loved and cherished by its poor Indian masters, is like them exterminated.

References
  • alco in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

alco (plural alcos)

  1. (slang, Australia) An alcoholic.
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