plural kilos
: a unit of mass or weight equaling one thousand grams or approximately 2.2 pounds : kilogram
Each sack weighs 50 kilos.
Did you know … that it takes a lobster between five and seven years to grow to a weight of half a kilo, the minimum size it should reach before being fished?—
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Food & DrinkWhen he finally strips off the kilos of gold enveloping his body, Deion is as light as a feather.—Curry Kirkpatrick
Curry KirkpatrickGathering in Versailles, west of Paris, governments are expected on Friday to approve plans to instead use a scientific formulation to define the exact mass of a kilo.—John Leicester
John LeicesterKilo
2 of 3communications code word
—used as a code word for the letter k
: thousand
kiloton
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John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2025
In preparation for his latest role, Yaman trained for two months, losing 10 kilos in the process, learning his fight choreography and benefiting from a background in basketball, which had won him a scholarship in his native Istanbul to study law.
—John Bleasdale, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025
Most recently, the two teamed up on one of the largest drug takedowns in Baltimore’s history, resulting in 65 guns, 10 kilos of drugs, and more than $300,000 in cash taken off the streets.
—Mikenzie Frost, Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2025
Melvin Combs, a small-time hustler, was introduced to selling heroin when Lucas fronted him several kilos from his Golden Triangle connection.
—airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
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Noun
Russo turned stool pigeon within a month of his November 2017 arrest for selling a kilo of cocaine to an undercover agent.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2025
In preparation for his latest role, Yaman trained for two months, losing 10 kilos in the process, learning his fight choreography and benefiting from a background in basketball, which had won him a scholarship in his native Istanbul to study law.
—John Bleasdale, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025
Most recently, the two teamed up on one of the largest drug takedowns in Baltimore’s history, resulting in 65 guns, 10 kilos of drugs, and more than $300,000 in cash taken off the streets.
—Mikenzie Frost, Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2025
Melvin Combs, a small-time hustler, was introduced to selling heroin when Lucas fronted him several kilos from his Golden Triangle connection.
—airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
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“Kilo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kilo. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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