lino

noun

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, informal, uncountable, usually)Clipping of linoleum.

   “But there was nobody at Kig and Kadgit's except the charwoman wiping over the “lino” in the passage.”

   “The third thing was the TORN lino in the kitchen, new puppy found it great fun to tear strips of lino off the floor .. first you scrabble like crazy with your claws to start a tear, and then you use teeth to tear off a lovely strip of lino to chew . We are still too scared to replace the lino as the next puppy will probably do the same .”

   “When we moved here, the people before had dogs, complete with crawling carpet and jumping lino. When we ripped up all the carpet and lino prior to moving in, we also bought half a dozen flea bombs, and bombed UNDER the house.”

   “I took up the lino from the kitchen and found this newspaper clipping”

2. (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, informal, uncountable, usually)Abbreviation of linesman.

   “Lino flagged a bit late but was right”

3. (US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, derogatory)Acronym of Libertarian in name only, typically used by libertarian members of the U.S. Libertarian Party to describe Libertarians whose views perceived as insufficiently libertarian.

   “As Glenn Beck was bashing Sarvis as a GPS-installing LINO on his show,,^([sic]) his muckraking journalists at TheBlaze "revealed" that Sarvis was "bankrolled" by an "Obama bundler."”