Melo

Quick meaning: Melo is a noun meaning (informal, British) Abbreviation of melodrama.

Meaning

(informal, British) Abbreviation of melodrama.

Example Sentences

The Roots of Heaven..John Huston’s melo about elephant conservation.

True life was melo about the first woman the George Cross. (As a stump word, ‘melo’ is short for ‘melodrama’.)

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.

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.

Word Forms

• melos

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mello, mela, melon, young, colonia, belvedere.

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