• Rego

    Origin

    From registration + -o("diminutive suffix").

    Full definition of rego

    Noun

    rego

    (usually uncountable; plural regos)
    1. (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Registration for a motor vehicle.The police pulled me over for driving with an expired rego.
    2. (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) The fee required for such registration.David couldn′t drive his car as he hadn′t paid his rego.
    3. (countable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) The registration number of a motor vehicle, used by police to access registration details such as the identity of the owner.
      • 1984, Renfrey Clarke, The Picket: Tasmanian Mine Workers Defend Their Jobs, page 84,“They also got the regos of the cars. There were two commercial travelers whose cars were trapped inside by the pickets, and they got hit with writs....”
      • 2010, Alex Palmer, The Labyrinth of Drowning, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page,A line of cars was parked along one side, presumably belonging to the sex workers and their clients. ‘Get their regos,’ Borghini said to one of his people.
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