autobio

noun

au·​to·​bio ¦ȯ-(ˌ)tō-¦bī-(ˌ)ō 

plural autobios

US, informal

: autobiography

Celebrity autobios look strong for fall …

—Ginger Curwen, American Bookseller, July 1986

Indeed, it seems as though most of the women in comics have at least experimented with autobio.

—Arie Kaplan, From Krakow to Krypton, 2008

Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

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