"docu" meaning in English

See docu in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈdɒkjuː/ Forms: docus [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} docu (plural docus)
  1. (informal) Clipping of documentary. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Alternative form of: documentary
    Sense id: en-docu-en-noun-T8EKYEje Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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    }
  ],
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        }
      ],
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          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "ref": "2002, Peter Makuck, Costly habits: stories:",
          "text": "Yesterday I saw a docu about a dingo that carried off this couple's baby while they were having a picnic.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 February 22, Emanuel Levy, “Out of the Past (1998): Jeff Dupre’s Docu about Knowledge of History and Self”, in EmanuelLevy [personal website], retrieved 2021-11-16:",
          "text": "[…] the docu centers on the latter’s [a courageous female adolescent] creation of a Gay-Straight Alliance in a Utah high school that became a hot political issue in 1996.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Clipping of documentary."
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      ],
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        "(informal) Clipping of documentary."
      ],
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        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "clipping",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɒkjuː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "docu"
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    }
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
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          "ref": "2002, Peter Makuck, Costly habits: stories:",
          "text": "Yesterday I saw a docu about a dingo that carried off this couple's baby while they were having a picnic.",
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          "ref": "2006 February 22, Emanuel Levy, “Out of the Past (1998): Jeff Dupre’s Docu about Knowledge of History and Self”, in EmanuelLevy [personal website], retrieved 2021-11-16:",
          "text": "[…] the docu centers on the latter’s [a courageous female adolescent] creation of a Gay-Straight Alliance in a Utah high school that became a hot political issue in 1996.",
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        }
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        "Clipping of documentary."
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        "(informal) Clipping of documentary."
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        "alt-of",
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      "ipa": "/ˈdɒkjuː/"
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