crambo noun. ['krambǝʊ] E17.
[Alt. of CRAMBE, on an Italian or Spanish model.]
1. A particular fashion in drinking. Only in E17.

2. A game in which one player gives a word or line of verse to which each of the others has to find a rhyme. M17.
dumb crambo a game in which one side has to guess a word chosen by the other side, after being given a word which rhymes with it, by acting in mime various words until they find it.

3. Rhyme, rhyming. derog. L17.

4. Distasteful repetition; = CRAMBE 1. L17-E18.

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