klom

plural kloms

1. informalliteratureSynonym of kilometre (“km”)

   It’s a crater more than twenty-five kloms in diameter.

   1983, Julian May, The Many-Coloured Land (paperback), Pan Books, Ltd., →ISBN, page 291

   2 more examples

   “All the way to L-One? That’s 56,000 kloms above the moon.”

   1986, Donald Kingsbury, The Moon Goddess and the Son, Baen Books, →ISBN, page 195

   Then he reminded them what would happen if they did that at three hundred kloms an hour.

   2011, Chris Wooding, The Iron Jackal, Indigo, →ISBN, page 26

   Synonyms: kilometre