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dumb crambo en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A guessing game, similar to charades, in which players act out, or silently pantomime, words that rhyme with a clue word. The objective is to guess a concealed word that rhymes with the clue.
    • In early Victoria there were family evening parties to which the father, mother and all sizes of growing children went together and at which they played charades, dumb crambo, guessing games and forfeits. 1942, Emily Carr, “Visiting Matrons”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:

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