Definition of "crambo"

crambo

noun
countable and uncountable, plural crambos or cramboes
1. (uncountable) A guessing game in which players guess words that rhyme with a clue word, seeking a word that is kept secret or concealed.
  Quotations
  I saw in one corner […] a cluster of men and women, diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double rhymes […] which raised a great deal of mirth.The spelling has been modernized.
  1711 May 23 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, May 12, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 63; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853
2. (countable) A word rhyming with another word.
  Quotations
  His similes in order setAnd every crambo he could get.
  1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, on transcribing his Poems