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rec room

rec room noun: clipped compound of recreation room.

rec room: clipped compound of recreation room
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Noun

rec room (plural rec rooms)

  1. (informal) Clipped compound of recreation room.
    • The new product was the Game Boy — a hand-held, battery-powered plastic slab that promised to set gamers loose, after all those decades of sweaty bondage, from the tyranny of rec rooms and pizza parlors and arcades.2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine

Forms of rec room

pluralrec rooms

Questions about rec room

What does rec room mean?
Rec room means clipped compound of recreation room.
What part of speech is rec room?
Rec room is a noun.
What is the plural of rec room?
The plural of rec room is rec rooms.

Words near rec room in the dictionary

  1. rec
  2. rec hall
  3. rec halls
  4. rec league
  5. rec leagues
  6. rec room
  7. rec rooms
  8. rec'd
  9. rec'ed
  10. rec'ing
  11. rec.

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