cro
Pluralcros
- 1A male friend or comrade, used among young men as a casual term of address or reference.
He's been my cro since the two of us were kids on the same street.
A couple of his cros showed up to help with the move.
Similarbro
Note
A blend of Crip and bro, though calling someone a cro does not make him a member of the Crips gang. The gang name inside the word is still worth knowing before you borrow it: this is slang with a specific origin, not just a neutral variant of bro. Drake and 21 Savage use it on "Circo Loco" (2022), where a cro is simply a friend who can shoot from anywhere.
- 2Dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant, used as a recreational drug.
The whole room smelled strongly of cro by the end of the night.
She rolled some cro before the show started.
Similarweed, marijuana, cannabis, dope, grass
Note
This word is a clipping of chronic, itself slang for marijuana, and it has no connection to the "friend" sense despite the shared spelling. It belongs to Multicultural London English, as in SL's "Gentleman" (2017), where the rapper portions his cro into bags. Because it is uncountable, it takes words like some or my, never a. A cro is a friend; some cro is the drug.
Practice
Can you tell the meanings of cro apart? Answer 4 quick questions from this page, or write your own sentence and AI will check it.
Origins
A blend of "Crip" (a member of the Crips gang) and "bro," though the word does not necessarily refer to an actual Crips member.
A clipping of "chronic," a slang term for marijuana.