diablo

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noun

The Devil or a devil.

“a diablo pizza”

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diable
OriginSpanish diablo →
CommonScrabble 9
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Meanings

diablo1

noundiablo (plural diablos)

plural diablos

  1. SouthwesternUSThe Devil or a devil.
adjectivediablo (not comparable)
  1. not comparablepostpositionalsometimescookingSynonym of diable (“flavored with hot spices/sauces”).

    a diablo pizza

    1 more example

    a diablo burger

    Synonyms: diable

Diablo2

nounDiablo (plural Diablos)

plural Diablos

  1. A sports car made by the Italian manufacturer Lamborghini.
  2. A Diablo wind.

    […]a Diablo Wind. A Diablo was responsible for the great Oakland-Berkeley fire of 1991. Earlier in this century Mill Valley in Marin County and Berkeley lost whole neighborhoods to northeaster fires. The winds are short in duration […]

    1998 02, McCormack's Guides, Incorporated, Marin, Napa, and Sonoma, McCormack's Guides, →ISBN
    1 more example

    […]a Diablo wind drove flames through the Berkeley Hills and into the campus of the University of California. Some 3,100 acres and 584 houses burned. Ten years later a Diablo-driven fire scorched a thousand acres and five homes. In 1946[…]

    2016 March 31, Stephen J. Pyne, California: A Fire Survey, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 161
proper noun
  1. A census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California, United States.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveSynonym of diable (“flavored with hot spices/sauces”).

Similar
diable
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Origin

diablo · noun, adjective

  1. Spanishdiablo“devil”
  2. Englishdiablo

Borrowed from Spanish diablo (“devil”). Doublet of diabolo, devil, diable, and diabolus.

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Diablo · noun, proper noun

  1. Spanishdiablo
  2. Spanishdiablo
  3. EnglishDiablo

Borrowed from Spanish diablo (“devil”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

diablo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diablo

MLA

“diablo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diablo. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “diablo,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diablo.

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