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-ola

1. a formative of no precise significance found in a variety of commercial coinages (Crayola; granola; Victrola) and jocular variations of words (crapola).
2. a suffix extracted from payola, used in coinages that have the general sense “bribery, esp. covert payments to an entertainment figure in return for promoting a product, making an appearance, etc.” (playola; plugola).

Origin:
appar. < It or L -ola dim. suffix; see -ole 1 , -ule
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-ola 
commercial suffix, probably originally in pianola (q.v.).
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