billo

German

Etymology

Clipping of billig  +‎ -o.

Adjective

billo (indeclinable)

  1. (colloquial, derogatory) cheap (implying the lowest tier of quality)
    • 1996 November 19, Jan Litzinger, “Mikrophon”, in maus.sys.mac‎[1] (Usenet):
      Genauso sollte es doch jedes billo Micro tun, oder?
      Any cheap mic should also do just as fine, shouldn't it?
    • 2020, Juliane Baldy, Paul, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, →ISBN, page 82:
      Sie fläzt sich aufs Sofa. Ihr Rock ist ein bisschen zu kurz dafür. Aber das sieht überhaupt nicht billo aus. Eher so nach Plakat.
      She lounges onto the couch. Her skirt is a bit too short for that. But it doesn't look cheap at all. More like poster-style.
    • 2024, Sabrina Pick, Still Believe in Love, epubli, →ISBN:
      Guten Morgen Liebes,
      bist du auch so verkatert wie ich? Nie wieder so einen Billo-Wein.
      Good morning dear,
      is your hangover as bad as mine? Cheap-ass wine, never again.

Usage notes

  • Most commonly used to form ad-hoc compounds with nouns, this largely replaces attributive usage.

Declension

Indeclinable.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:billo.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.