cro

See also: CRO and cró

Translingual

Symbol

cro

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

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)

(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”).^[1]

Noun

cro (uncountable)

(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)

References

^ “cro n.³”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

Anagrams

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

Champenois

Etymology

Inherited from Old French crois, from Latin crux.

Noun

cro m (plural cros)

(Troyen) cross

Noun

cro m (plural cros)

(Troyen) hole

References

Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[3] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[4] (in French), Troyes

Manx

Etymology

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

Noun

cro m (genitive singular cro, plural croiyn)

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)

(Jersey) hook
(Jersey) fishhook

Synonyms

(fishhook): ain

Derived terms

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

[1] “cro n.³”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

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