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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024-eroo - a suffix that creates familiar, usually jocular variations of semantically more neutral nouns;
normally added to monosyllabic bases, or merged with bases ending in -er: flopperoo; smackeroo; switcheroo.
- perh. extracted from buckaroo, though this word appears to have been conformed to a preexisting suffix (or word), the stress and final tense vowel being otherwise unaccounted for of unclear origin, originally
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