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melo

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

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Definition of melo

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (British, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, informal, uncountable)Abbreviation of melodrama.
    “Bar burlesque & Penleyan comedy I am becoming tolerant of this insipid British drama. Even bad melo doesn’t cause me to vomit as it did of old.”
    “One is a melodrama about Bolshevism—the break up of the Armies in 1917—what one wd call a West End melodrama as opposed to a Lyceum melo.”
    “She learned to read and write on the road and between scenes backstage, under the tutorship of the “female heavy” of a melodrama company. Meanwhile Mary listened and learned of the world about her. She heard a very great deal of the chesty gossip of melo actors discussing “when I was with Belasco,” and came to learn that on this wonderful Broadway Belasco was master.”
    “True life was melo about the first woman the George Cross. (As a stump word, ‘melo’ is short for ‘melodrama’.)”
    “The Roots of Heaven..John Huston’s melo about elephant conservation.”
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noun

  1. (British, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, informal, uncountable)Abbreviation of melodrama.
    “Bar burlesque & Penleyan comedy I am becoming tolerant of this insipid British drama. Even bad melo doesn’t cause me to vomit as it did of old.”
    “One is a melodrama about Bolshevism—the break up of the Armies in 1917—what one wd call a West End melodrama as opposed to a Lyceum melo.”
    “She learned to read and write on the road and between scenes backstage, under the tutorship of the “female heavy” of a melodrama company. Meanwhile Mary listened and learned of the world about her. She heard a very great deal of the chesty gossip of melo actors discussing “when I was with Belasco,” and came to learn that on this wonderful Broadway Belasco was master.”
    “True life was melo about the first woman the George Cross. (As a stump word, ‘melo’ is short for ‘melodrama’.)”
    “The Roots of Heaven..John Huston’s melo about elephant conservation.”

name

  1. A city in Uruguay, capital of the department of Cerro Largo

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Etymology

Perhaps after French mélo.

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