doco

Definition

Abbreviation of documentary.

Etymology

From documentary + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

Example Sentences

• "Seibert has many complaints about nature docos, not the least of which is the music that seems to suggest that animals are constantly shadowed by symphony orchestras."
• "Now we spend about a third of our time in the US working on docos, working with US wildlife."
• "I started thinking that I had to get back to where I was when I was put into the field to do docos [documentaries] and put in situations to capture sound as simply as I could and be sure to get what I could get."