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crambo

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cram·bo  (krmb)
n. pl. cram·boes or cram·bos
1. A word game in which a player or team must find and express a rhyme for a word or line presented by the opposing player or team.
2. Doggerel.

[Obsolete crambe, cabbage, from Latin cramb (repetta), (warmed-over) cabbage, said of pedestrian writing, from Greek kramb.]

crambo [ˈkræmbəʊ]
n
(Group Games / Games, other than specified) a word game in which one team says a rhyme or rhyming line for a word or line given by the other team
[from earlier crambe, probably from Latin crambē repetīta cabbage repeated, hence an old story, a rhyming game, from Greek krambē]


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