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-eroo




a suffix that creates familiar, usually jocular variations of semantically more neutral nouns; normally added to monosyllabic bases, or merged with bases ending in -er: flopperoo; smackeroo; switcheroo.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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