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jamboˈree
a. A noisy revel; a carousal or spree. orig. U.S. slang.
1868N.Y. Herald 10 July 8/3 The Seventh regiment has gone on a jamboree to Norwich, Connecticut. 1872Scribner's Mag. IV. 363 (Farmer) There have not been so many dollars spent on any jamboree. 1878W. H. Daniels That Boy xv. 236 He enjoyed a drinking bout or a jamboree as well as if he couldn't write the finest poetry in the language. 1895W. O'Brien On the Eve 25/2 The Orange bad boys who..would be making the air of Belfast hideous about this time of the year with their annual jamboree over the July anniversaries. 1955H. Spring These Lovers fled Away iii. 90 There was some jamboree or other at the Assembly Rooms. 1959Economist 27 June 1144/1 This is sufficiently important, and difficult, to warrant a top-level western conference this year—not merely another Atlantic jamboree. 1960A. Huxley Let. 17 July (1969) 893 Meet me in Boston with the Microbus and drive me..to Hanover, where you might stay for all or part of the Jamboree (at which I am to receive an honorary degree). 1973G. Scott Water Horse (1974) v. 33 Even the most respectable souls milled around the countryside..holding all sorts of jamborees.
b. Euchre. A lone hand containing the five highest cards. ? Obs.
1886Euchre: how to play It 45 Jamboree signifies the combination of the five highest cards, as, for example, the two Bowers, Ace, King, and Queen of trumps in one hand, which entitles the holder to count sixteen points. The holder of such a hand simply announces the fact, as no play is necessary; but should he play the hand as a Jambone, he can count only eight points, whereas he could count sixteen if he announced it as a Jamboree.
c. The name given to the 1920 International Rally of Boy Scouts, and now applied to any large scout rally. Also attrib.
1919Times 17 Oct. 9/6 The Council of the Boy Scouts Association announce that a ‘Jamboree’ will be held at Olympia, for about eight days next August. 1931Mag. Univ. Students' Union Apr. 2 The Jamboree spirit was marvellous. 1955Times 20 Aug. 9/3 The four-year cycle for jamborees is being broken in order to commemorate in 1957 the fiftieth anniversary of scouting. |
