crambo

Definitions


[ˈkrambəʊ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a game in which a player gives a word or line of verse to which each of the other players must find a rhyme


Phrases:

Origin:
early 17th century (denoting a particular fashion in drinking): from earlier crambe ‘cabbage’, used figuratively to denote something distasteful that is repeated, apparently from Latin crambe repetita ‘cabbage served up again’, applied by Juvenal to any distasteful repetition




definition by Oxford Dictionaries