cro

See also: CRO and cró

Translingual

Symbol

cro

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Crow.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Crow terms

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɹəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɹoʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Etymology 1

Blend of Crip (“a member of the Crips gang”) +‎ bro; however, the word does not necessarily refer to a member of the Crips.

Noun

cro (plural cros)

1. (MTE, slang) Synonym of bro (“a male comrade or friend”)
   • 2022 November 11, Drake, 21 Savage (lyrics and music), “Circo Loco”, in Her Loss‎^[1]:

     Every night, late night like I'm Jimmy Fallon / Cro shoot from anywhere like he Ray Allen

Related terms

• crodie

Etymology 2

Clipping of chronic (“marijuana”).

Noun

cro (uncountable)

2. (MLE, slang) Synonym of marijuana

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana

   • 2017 March 26, SL (lyrics and music), “Gentleman”‎^[2]:

     Oh no, here we go, but I'm busy bagging my cro / Gotta go to my drum, but I got buds / So let me just have a quick smoke (quick smoke)

Anagrams

• R.O.C., CoR, Orc, orc, cor-, ORC, roc, Cor., OCR, RoC, cor., R. O. C., COR, ROC, cor

Champenois

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French crois, from Latin crux. Cognate with French croix, Bourguignon croé, Norman croués, Picard croé, Walloon croes, Franco-Provençal croués, Occitan crotz.

Noun

cro m (plural cros)

1. (Troyen) cross

Noun 2

cro m (plural cros)

1. (Troyen) hole

References

• Jean Daunay, Parlers de Champagne, 1998
• Baudouin, Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux (Ville-sous-la-Ferté), 1887

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cnó, from Proto-Celtic *knūs (compare Welsh cnau (“nuts”)).

Noun

cro m (genitive singular cro, plural croiyn)

1. nut

Derived terms

• cro almon, cro Greagagh (“almond”)
• cro bainney (“coconut”)
• cro beetyl (“betel nut”)
• cro Brasillagh (“Brazil nut”)
• cro cabbil, cro souney (“horse chestnut”)
• cro cashtal (“castle nut”)
• cro cleashagh (“wing nut”)
• cro coull, cro keylley mooar, cro sharroo (“hazelnut, filbert, cobnut”)
• cro darree (“oak-apple, acorn”)
• cro faih (“beech nut”)
• cro frangagh, galchro (“walnut”)
• cro jinshar (“gingernut”)
• cro kytchinagh (“nutmeg”)
• cro shey-lhiatteeagh (“hexagonal nut”)
• cro Spaainagh (“(edible) chestnut”)
• cro sponk (“molucca nut”)
• cro teayst (“doughnut”)
• cro thallooin (“peanut, ground nut, monkey nut”)
• cro towlit (“tommy nut”)
• cro-ghone (“nut-brown”)

 

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cro	chro	gro
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse krókr (“hook”).

Noun

cro m (plural crocs)

1. (Jersey) hook
2. (Jersey) fishhook

Synonyms

• (fishhook): ain

Derived terms

• cro d'la tchulasse (“hook for rear harness”)