Alternative form of Day-Glo; luminescent; fluorescent; of colors, very bright. [(colloquial) Very bright and luminous in colour.]
Used in a Sentence
dayglo
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dayglo.
Editorial note
It looks cool and has a certain elan — but officers would be safer in more functional dayglo attire.
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Quick take
Alternative form of Day-Glo; luminescent; fluorescent; of colors, very bright. [(colloquial) Very bright and luminous in colour.]
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for dayglo.
adjective
Alternative form of Day-Glo; luminescent; fluorescent; of colors, very bright. [(colloquial) Very bright and luminous in colour.]
Example sentences
It looks cool and has a certain elan — but officers would be safer in more functional dayglo attire.
Like you see someone wearing bell-bottoms with an 80s dayglo jacket.
It has dayglo, metallic and all sorts of amazing things.
Still the same physics on the whole but the ideas that captivate are more than just academic glyph sets with cherry picked snippets highlighted in dayglo.
They do use some of the limited practice time F1 teams are allowed to do things like run the car with aero rakes (lots of pitot tubes on scaffold like structures) attached or the covered in dayglo flow-vis paint to gather real world data.
The author’s “brand” seems to be dayglo pink hair.
QA in most companies really was Bob on the assembly line who put little dayglo stickers on the inside and wrote his initials under below the line that read "Q.
President Gates!), TV watches you, General Magic, Ricochet radio modems (the very first wifi), and it still had much more of a "moody b&w" aesthetic than the dayglo nightmare that was to come.
"it won’t be long before you need a license and registration to operate a bicycle, and you’ll be wearing a giant Dayglo bodysuit with illumination circuitry, one of those Australian “smart hats,” and a GPS beacon up your posterior so you don’t get hit by an Apple iCar." The people who oppose bicycle lanes [or even bicycles in general] won't even get pissed off by this stupendously unlikely suggestion.
Quote examples
The author’s “brand” seems to be dayglo pink hair.
QA in most companies really was Bob on the assembly line who put little dayglo stickers on the inside and wrote his initials under below the line that read "Q.
President Gates!), TV watches you, General Magic, Ricochet radio modems (the very first wifi), and it still had much more of a "moody b&w" aesthetic than the dayglo nightmare that was to come.
"it won’t be long before you need a license and registration to operate a bicycle, and you’ll be wearing a giant Dayglo bodysuit with illumination circuitry, one of those Australian “smart hats,” and a GPS beacon up your posterior so you don’t get hit by an Apple iCar." The people who oppose bicycle lanes [or even bicycles in general] won't even get pissed off by this stupendously unlikely suggestion.
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How do you use dayglo in a sentence?
It looks cool and has a certain elan — but officers would be safer in more functional dayglo attire.
What does dayglo mean?
Alternative form of Day-Glo; luminescent; fluorescent; of colors, very bright. [(colloquial) Very bright and luminous in colour.]
What part of speech is dayglo?
dayglo is commonly used as adjective.