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-eroo suffix used as a meaningless embellishment; also used to intensify US, 1931- Thieves, embezzlers and coneroos, all might redeem themselves in time. — Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm, p. 298, 1949
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 65, 1950
- A smasheroo she was–a real zinger. — Max Shulman, I was a Teen-Age Dwarf, p. 8, 1959
- My famous one-two, learned from Myron: first, excessive flattery with a grain of truth swatched in cultured nacre; then the lethal puncheroo. — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 51, 1968
- His strategy was to slip it in while fingering her, taking advantage of the darkness to pull the old switcheroo. — Richard Price, The Wanderers, p. 40, 1974
- Glenn made Jack feel as he had around his stepfather–a master barroom conneroo who would afterwards deride those who always stood him a drink[.] — Earl Thompson, Tattoo, p. 227, 1974
- In any case, all of them are skilled enough to create a steamy anticipation throughout the audience that can only be relieved when the last piece of cloth magically unveils snatcheroo. — Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square, p. 9, 1986
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