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
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Judy Berman, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
In a later search of the daycare, investigators recovered drugs and several kilo presses used to package narcotics into kilo-sized bricks.
—Emily Palmer, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
In May 1999, the Justice Department said in a 2010 news release, Cárdenas Guillén threatened to kill a sheriff’s deputy from Cameron County, Texas, who was working in an undercover capacity with ICE after the deputy refused to deliver a load of almost 1,000 kilos of marijuana.
—Julia Ainsley, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2024
Even a small concrete dragon’s tooth would be more like 330 pounds / 150 kilos.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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Noun
When the liquid evaporates, 11 kilos of salt are harvested from the kitchen floor.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
In a later search of the daycare, investigators recovered drugs and several kilo presses used to package narcotics into kilo-sized bricks.
—Emily Palmer, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
In May 1999, the Justice Department said in a 2010 news release, Cárdenas Guillén threatened to kill a sheriff’s deputy from Cameron County, Texas, who was working in an undercover capacity with ICE after the deputy refused to deliver a load of almost 1,000 kilos of marijuana.
—Julia Ainsley, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2024
Even a small concrete dragon’s tooth would be more like 330 pounds / 150 kilos.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Kilo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kilo. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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