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melo|ˈmɛləʊ|
colloq. abbrev. of melodrama.
1889E. Dowson Let. 24 Mar. (1967) 54, I could no more go twice than I could to an Adelphi melo. Ibid. 24 Dec. 121 Even bad melo doesn't cause me to vomit as it did of old. 1920A. Huxley Let. 23 Apr. (1969) 183 What one wd call a West End melodrama as opposed to a Lyceum melo. 1971Radio Times 26 Aug., True life was melo about the first woman to win the George Cross. (As a stump word, ‘melo’ is short for ‘melodrama’.) 1973Ibid. 20 Dec. 18/4 The Roots of Heaven..John Huston's melo about elephant conservation. |