As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
camouflage, camo
(noun) fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background
Source: WordNet® 3.1
camo (countable and uncountable, plural camos)
(textiles) A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
camo (third-person singular simple present camos, present participle camoing, simple past and past participle camoed)
(informal) To camouflage.
(informal) To put on camouflage clothing.
• OAMC, coma, maco
Source: Wiktionary
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.