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cram⋅bo

  [kram-boh]
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–noun, plural -boes.
1. a 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.
Origin:
1600–10; earlier crambe < L crambē repetīta phrase used by Juvenal in reference to unimaginative writing, lit., repeated (i.e., re-served) cabbage (< Gk krambē kind of cabbage)
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cram·bo   (krām'bō)   
n.   pl. cram·boes or cram·bos

  1. A word game in which a player or team must find and express a rhyme for a word or line presented by the opposing player or team.

  2. Doggerel.


[Obsolete crambe, cabbage, from Latin crambē (repetīta), (warmed-over) cabbage, said of pedestrian writing, from Greek krambē.]
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