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primo

nounadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ˈpɹiː.moʊ//

The principal part of a duet.

noun

  1. 1

    The principal part of a duet.

  2. 2

    slangAny high-quality drug.

  3. 3

    slangA marijuana cigarette that has been laced with cocaine or heroin.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian primo (“first”). Doublet of prime and primus.

adjective

  1. 1

    Best; first-class.

    We strung Christmas lights around the ceiling to frame it. The final touches of coolness were my two spinning disco lights in the front room. That apartment was like my canvas and it was a primo party spot.

    I had to contort a bit to see during Act I, but the theater was not full — opera tickets, even at such prices, are a luxury for many Hungarians — so during the first intermission I moved to a primo orchestra seat, with not just the knowledge but the assistance of an usher.

    Like me, you will be so embarrassed for Earth’s primo edgelord that he feels pressed into doing something so excruciatingly conventional. This is worse than when Kate Moss was scapegoated into rehab.

Forms

plural
primos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).