chrimbo
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 7
Definition of chrimbo
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
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(British, slang)Christmas, especially with regard to its more secular and commercial aspects.
“The thing is, The Montrose is cracker on a Thursday night, never mind that the Chrimbo lunacy season has kicked off good and proper.”
“"A Chrimbo pressie for me?" He peeped around the door.”
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Etymology
The OED cites the first printed usage (of the variant spelling Crimbo) as being in 1928. They give John Lennon's 1963 usage in a Beatles' Fan Club Christmas single as the first recorded use of the variant form Crimble.
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