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Keno vs Kero - What's the difference?

keno | kero |

As nouns the difference between keno and kero

is that keno is a gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered while kero is pad (residence).

keno

English

Noun

(-)
  • A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.
  • * 1971 , Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005), page 41:
    • Memories of this night are extremely hazy. All I have, for guide-pegs, is a pocketful of keno cards and cocktail napkins, all covered with scribbled notes.

    kero

    English

    Etymology 1

    Abbreviation of kerosene.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (AU, NZ, colloquial) Kerosene.
  • *1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 293:
  • *:The hessian hut glowed yellow with the light of a kero lamp.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of wooden drinking vessel produced by the Incas.

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