plural kilos
: a unit of mass or weight equaling one thousand grams or approximately 2.2 pounds : kilogram
Each sack weighs 50 kilos.
Did you know … that it takes a lobster between five and seven years to grow to a weight of half a kilo, the minimum size it should reach before being fished?—
Food & Drink
Food & DrinkWhen he finally strips off the kilos of gold enveloping his body, Deion is as light as a feather.—Curry Kirkpatrick
Curry KirkpatrickGathering in Versailles, west of Paris, governments are expected on Friday to approve plans to instead use a scientific formulation to define the exact mass of a kilo.—John Leicester
John LeicesterKilo
2 of 3communications code word
—used as a code word for the letter k
: thousand
kiloton
Examples of kilo in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebJordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2024
The rockets—fired in a variety of types and sizes—carry anywhere of up to 150 kilos of explosives, according to a city police bomb-disposal expert.
—Etgar Lefkovits, Sun Sentinel, 26 July 2024
Adderly Rafael Santos Familia, 32, landed on the naughty list in December 2022 when he was caught smuggling nearly 4½ kilos of cocaine on a flight from the Dominican Republic.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
Waiters hustled back and forth with foaming bottles of beer, diners abandoned their pasta con le sarde to jive in the narrow alley with passersby, and the greengrocer nodded with the beat while weighing out half a kilo of artichokes for an older gentleman.
—Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
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Noun
The body, in fact, is not dead at all, and belongs to a gabby, nervous wreck of a kid (Austin Abrams), who happens to be carrying four kilos of heroine in his book bag.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2024
The rockets—fired in a variety of types and sizes—carry anywhere of up to 150 kilos of explosives, according to a city police bomb-disposal expert.
—Etgar Lefkovits, Sun Sentinel, 26 July 2024
Adderly Rafael Santos Familia, 32, landed on the naughty list in December 2022 when he was caught smuggling nearly 4½ kilos of cocaine on a flight from the Dominican Republic.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
Waiters hustled back and forth with foaming bottles of beer, diners abandoned their pasta con le sarde to jive in the narrow alley with passersby, and the greengrocer nodded with the beat while weighing out half a kilo of artichokes for an older gentleman.
—Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
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“Kilo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kilo. Accessed 12 Sep. 2024.
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