(informal) A Filipino.
Used in a Sentence
filo
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for filo.
Editorial note
The legend is that they were the cheapest colors at the store when Jerry and Filo were setting up the office.
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Definitions2
Parts of speech1
Quick take
(informal) A Filipino.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of filo gathered in one view.
Alternative spelling of phyllo. [A type of dough, originating in Mediterranean cuisine, that is used in thin layers to make pastries (such as baklava and apple strudel) and pies and becomes very flaky when cooked.]
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for filo.
noun
(informal) A Filipino.
noun
Alternative spelling of phyllo. [A type of dough, originating in Mediterranean cuisine, that is used in thin layers to make pastries (such as baklava and apple strudel) and pies and becomes very flaky when cooked.]
Example sentences
The legend is that they were the cheapest colors at the store when Jerry and Filo were setting up the office.
David Filo even still has around 9% of Yahoo (Yang & Filo had closer to 20% at the time of the IPO if I recall).
Woz left Apple a long time ago, so did Allen and Filo (Yahoo Co-Founder).
Given Filo is a professional open source maintainer, any annoyance I've run into he's probably experienced 100x.
* The internal hackday win led me to meeting David Filo to give him a quick demo.
Jerry Yang and David Filo are nice guys.
As far as telecommuting, when I was at Yahoo, David Filo maintained a small cadre of elite kernel hackers who lived all around the world and worked from wherever they pleased.
But inside the company everything that could be a color was purple, people were emotionally invested in it, and debate raged on getting Jerry and Filo (who were apparently the holdouts on red) to change the home page logo to purple.
Quote examples
"It was a list of David and Jerry's (co-founders Filo and Yang) favorite Web sites," Kawasaki recalled.
Although he doesn't spell it out, I suspect this is the primary misunderstanding that drove Filo to open with "I need everyone to stop looking at go.sum, especially to analyze dependency graphs".
Proper noun examples
David Filo, Jerry Yang, Sergey Brin, Larry Page didn't bother to finish grad school at Stanford and dropped out too.
Filo Studios is indeed the design company that created the site.
Filo Farnsworth comes to mind among the latter.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use filo in a sentence?
The legend is that they were the cheapest colors at the store when Jerry and Filo were setting up the office.
What does filo mean?
(informal) A Filipino.
What part of speech is filo?
filo is commonly used as noun.