anthro
See also: anthro-
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Shortening.
Noun
[edit]anthro (countable and uncountable, plural anthros)
- (informal, uncountable) Anthropology.
- 1988 September 9, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- I gather the phrase is used in lieu of some more practical benefit, e.g., a "job," which, as holders of English lit and anthro degrees can tell you, isn't necessarily part of the program.
- 1992, Ann Wilson, Fearful Symmetry[2]:
- Unlikely as it seemed, he might somehow return to the Empire, and if that happened, any information he could bring back would be valuable to the socio and anthro specialists.
- (informal, countable) An anthropologist.
- 1969, Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for your Sins:
- Workshop anthros often ask Indians of tender age to give their authoritative answers to problems which an entire generation of Indians is just now beginning to solve.
- 1994, Julian Rice, “A ventriloquy of anthros”, in American Indian Quarterly, page 176:
- While Deloria may have hoped to move anthropologists to be more appreciative, Erdoes simply sets scholars up as straw men for the average non-Indian academic reader to self-servingly scorn. Anthros are responsible for believing reservation Indians are “warriors without weapons” (1972:36-37)
- (informal, countable) An anthropomorphic character.
- 2012, Lindsay Cibos, Jared Hodges, Draw More Furries: How to Create Anthropomorphic Fantasy Creatures:
- Extra animals add complexity, but the benefit is that you're more likely to create a unique new character. There's hundreds of wolf anthros, but how many zebra-striped pig-tigers are there?
Translations
[edit]An anthropomorphic character.
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Adjective
[edit]anthro (not comparable)
- (informal) anthropomorphic
- 2004, Brad Guigar, The everything cartooning book, page 146:
- They are to anthro cartoonists what Trekkies are to Star Trek, gathering for special conventions that feature anthro cartoons and cartoonists.
Translations
[edit]Anthropomorphic.
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