cherry-merry-bamboo

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English

Etymology

See cherry-merry.

Noun

cherry-merry-bamboo (uncountable)

  1. (Anglo-Indian, obsolete) A beating with a bamboo stick.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary