Informal abbreviation for 'colloquial' or 'colloquialism,' used in dictionaries and linguistic writing.
Abbreviated form of colloquial, which comes from Latin 'colloquium' (conversation). Created as dictionary shorthand in modern linguistic notation.
Colloq is a meta-word—it's a linguistic abbreviation used to label other linguistic features, making it self-referential in a way that linguists absolutely love.
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