Noun

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(Australia, NZ, UK, colloquial, informal)

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, title=Dogs ...No Way , group=aus.jokes , author=Malcolm Tippett , date=July 20 , year=1996 , passage=The third thing was the TORN lino' in the kitchen , new puppy found it great fun to tear strips of '''lino''' off the floor  .. first you scrabble like crazy with your claws to start a tear , and then you use teeth to tear off a lovely strip of '''lino''' to chew . We are still too scared to replace the ' lino as the next puppy will probably do the same . citation

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, title=Frontline or Advantage for fleas? , group=aus.pets , author=Augie , date=October 30 , year=2002 , passage=When we moved here, the people before had dogs, complete with crawling carpet and jumping lino'. When we ripped up all the carpet and ' lino prior to moving in, we also bought half a dozen flea bombs, and bombed UNDER the house. citation

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, title=Found this old paper under the lino of a reno , group=aus.sport.aussie-rules , author=George W Frost , date=April 25 , year=2010 , passage=I took up the lino from the kitchen and found this newspaper clipping citation

Noun

(en noun)

(US, Canada, slang, derogatory) A person of Mediterranean (especially Italian) descent, stereotypically regarded as shallow and materialistic.

* 1993 , Purdue Research Foundation, Romance Languages Annual

Ginos are essentially teenagers of Italian background who take on what they think are traits that characterize an Italian...

* 1994 , Marcel Danesi, Cool: The Signs and Meanings of Adolescence?

Ginos and Ginas typically came from Italian households, wore stylish clothing, and listened to disco-type music.

* 200 , "[+//Tania//-]", "They're not going there just to get high"'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''alt.rave )

Not all ginos and ginas are the same, just becuz you've come across a couple you hate, doesn't mean you hate them all. ... Where I live it is probably 99% ginos and ginas and I get along with them just fine, in fact, my boyfriend is a gino.