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Crimbo

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  • noun UK, slang Christmas, especially the more secular and commercial aspects

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  • On Christmas morning, watch the Peter Pan Cup race at London's Serpentine – a competitive, 100m crawl through fresh water – or brave the waves at Crooklets Beach, Bude, where everyone from kids to "senior splashers" join a madcap mosh in the icy Atlantic, with prizes for the best Crimbo headgear.

    This week's new events 2011

  • Cameron and Brooks has a cosy meet at Crimbo to decide who would be the fall guy...

    Met police reopen investigation into phone hacking at News of the World 2011

  • Merry Crimbo. on December 25, 2008 at 12: 07 am | Reply Gordo1uk

    Merry Christmas! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • The Award For The Team Top at Christmas Blowing It In The Most Spectacular Fashion: A few candidates for this, although no one has been top at the end of Christmas Day and finished outside the top four since 1972, with the exception of John Gregory's Aston Villa in 1998-99, who won just five of their 20 post-Crimbo fixtures to putter sadly into sixth come May.

    The Knowledge | Who were the first team to use a Christmas tree formation? | John Ashdown 2010

  • It seems that David Cameron met Arnold Swarchenegger at a Policy Exchange Crimbo bash on Monday reporting delightedly that he was taller than the girly-man.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Newmania 2007

  • It seems that David Cameron met Arnold Swarchenegger at a Policy Exchange Crimbo bash on Monday reporting delightedly that he was taller than the girly-man.

    The Creature Alone Newmania 2007

  • Crimbo doesn't start until November is over, so there!

    you started yet? Katy 2009

  • Anyone who thinks Crimbo starts around September or even earlier can be arrested and charged under the It's Not Christmas Until December Act of 1852.

    you started yet? Katy 2009

  • It seems that David Cameron met Arnold Swarchenegger at a Policy Exchange Crimbo bash on Monday reporting delightedly that he was taller than the girly-man.

    Archive 2007-12-02 Newmania 2007

  • Get your mates or familyto group together and buy you a ticket for Crimbo (£225 for 4 days of round-the-clock goodness – bargainous).

    November « 2006 « Innovation Cloud 2006

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