cambro

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
6

Definition of cambro

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.
    “At seven o'clock, on schedule, one of Chef James's staff arrived with the portable insulated containers known to caterers as Cambros.”
    “During transportation and set-up, a holding oven, or cambro, is usually required to keep food hot. These are used to keep dinner rolls, roasts, turkeys, chicken breasts and all other hot food at the right temperature[…]”
    “You'll find a multitude of uses for these—cooking a chicken stew to baking cookies, transporting individual appetizers and using as shelves in cambros.”
    “Pickles rushed me into the manager's office, my hand still stuffed in a cambro of tomato goo.”

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Etymology

From a trademark of the Cambro Manufacturing Company.

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