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alco (plural alcos)

1. A small South American dog, domesticated by the natives, now thought to be extinct.
   • 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. lxxviii-lxxix,

     […] the alco, a mute little dog, caressing and sequacious, once loved and cherished by its poor Indian masters, is like them exterminated.

• “alco”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Shortening.

alco (plural alcos)

1. (slang, Australia) An alcoholic.

• (UK, US) alkie

• Acol, COLA, Calo, Caló, Coal., LCAO, LOAC, LOCA, coal, cola, loca