doco

English

Etymology

From documentary +‎ -o (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒ.kəʊ/

  Rhymes: -ɒkəʊ

Noun

doco (plural docos)

1. (UK, Australia, informal) Abbreviation of documentary.
   • 1994, Phillip Adams, Classic Columns‎^[1], page 144:

     Seibert has many complaints about nature docos, not the least of which is the music that seems to suggest that animals are constantly shadowed by symphony orchestras.

   • 1999, Reptiles, volume 7, page 20:

     Now we spend about a third of our time in the US working on docos, working with US wildlife.

   • 2000, Tom Kenny, Sound for Picture: Film Sound through the 1990s‎^[2], page 160:

     I started thinking that I had to get back to where I was when I was put into the field to do docos [documentaries] and put in situations to capture sound as simply as I could and be sure to get what I could get.

2. (computing, informal) Abbreviation of documentation.

   - Can you use asterisks in a filename?
   - I don't know. Check the doco.

Anagrams

• cood