Diablo

nounproper nounattested in dialogue

A sports car made by the Italian manufacturer Lamborghini.

noun

1
A sports car made by the Italian manufacturer Lamborghini.
2
A Diablo wind.
[…]a Diablo Wind. A Diablo was responsible for the great Oakland-Berkeley fire of 1991. Earlier in this century Mill Valley in Marin County and Berkeley lost whole neighborhoods to northeaster fires. The winds are short in duration […]
[…]a Diablo wind drove flames through the Berkeley Hills and into the campus of the University of California. Some 3,100 acres and 584 houses burned. Ten years later a Diablo-driven fire scorched a thousand acres and five homes. In 1946[…]

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish diablo (“devil”).

proper noun

1
A census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California, United States.

Forms

plural: Diablos

diabetes · Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases…diabetic · Of or pertaining to diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus.diablo · The or a devil.

Diablo · A sports car made by the Italian manufacturer Lamborghini.

diabolical · Of or concerning the devil: devilish, satanic.diagnosis · The process of, or an instance of, identification of the…diagnostic · Of, or relating to diagnosis.

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