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单词 crambo
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
cram•bo  (krambō),USA pronunciation n., pl. -boes. 
  1. Gamesa game in which one person or side must find a rhyme to a word or a line of verse given by another.
  2. inferior rhyme.
  • Greek krambē kind of cabbage)
  • Latin crambē repetīta phrase used by Juvenal in reference to unimaginative writing, literally, repeated (i.e., re-served) cabbage (
  • earlier crambe 1600–10

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
crambo /ˈkræmbəʊ/ n
  1. a word game in which one team says a rhyme or rhyming line for a word or line given by the other team
Etymology: 17th Century: from earlier crambe, probably from Latin crambē repetīta cabbage repeated, hence an old story, a rhyming game, from Greek krambē
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