Meanings
nounfibro (uncountable)
- AustraliauncountableFibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.
There are a few faded colourless fibro buildings, jagged black holes punched here and there in the panels.
2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 191 more example
Her house was a little grey fibro job. Nondescript really, with cracked and broken fibro louvres, sad and sorry walls.
2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 322 - informaluncountableFibromyalgia.
When I got fibro, the Internet was not in common use, so I didn't have the resources that a newly diagnosed person would have now.
2011, Linda Kay Mullinax, It's Okay to Hurt: My Life with Fibromyalgia, page 43
Origin
Abbreviations.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Polish azbestocement
- azbestocementfibro-cement
Russian асбестоцеме́нтный ши́фер, ши́фер
- асбестоцеме́нтный ши́фер (asbestoceméntnyj šífer)fibro-cement
- ши́фер (šífer)fibro-cement
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