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tamboos

tamboos is the plural of tamboo.

Meaning of tamboo

Noun

tamboo (plural tamboos)

  1. (historical, slang) A temporary shelter used by soldiers during the First World War.
    • We live in tamboos – a sort of cross between a cowshed and an outdoor privy.1995, Pat Barker, The Ghost Road (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 804

Questions about tamboos

What is tamboos the plural of?
Tamboos is the plural of tamboo.

Words near tamboos in the dictionary

  1. tambookie
  2. Tambookieland
  3. Tambookies
  4. tambool
  5. Tamboon
  6. tamboos
  7. Tambopata
  8. Tambor de Mina
  9. tambora
  10. tamboras
  11. tamborazo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tamboos (page history and authors); tamboo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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