-orama, sfx — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

-orama sfx

also -erama -rama

[Gk orama, a view and orig. used as the second syllable of panorama, diorama, cosmorama, and other London shows created for mass entertainment during the early 19C. This association with large-scale entertainment has persisted in its modern, sl. use]

(orig. US teen) used to indicate a considerable size, quality or expanse, e.g. babe-orama, a very attractive woman (or man) or a large number of attractive women (or men), fun-orama, a great deal of enjoyment.

1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS 109: Drinkerama A drinking party.
1970		A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 155: Life at the stripperama wasn’t all whisky and kickshins.
1977		(con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 37: The briefing, standard diurnal informational freak-o-rama, Five O’Clock Follies, Jive at Five, war stories.
1979		E. Bond Worlds Part I vi: This here is the greatest strip show on earth! The Trench festival of striperama!
1986		Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 6: -orama – emphatic suffix: She gave us a fourteen-page take-home exam – barforama.
1987		‘Joe Bob Briggs’ Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In 178: We’re talking winner of the 1983 Ugly-Rama.
1989		Sydney Morn. Herald Guide 13 Mar. 8S/1: [A] selection of standard freako-ramas.
1997–2002		Hope College ‘Dict. of New Terms’ 🌐 barf-o-rama adj. A response to something unpleasant. Expression used mainly by teens to say something is repulsive. [...] ‘Look at her outfit, barf-o-rama!’.
1999		M. Adams ‘Slayer Sl.’ Pt 2 in Verbatim Autumn 🌐 Buffy seems especially attracted to words with a retro sound: a vampire forever trapped in ’Seventies garb is Slutorama.
2002		(con. 1980s) i80s.com 🌐 o-rama Suffix you affix to a word to describe the whole spectrum of the meaning. ‘He is a Dweeb-o-rama’. Meaning, you are describing someone that is every sense of that word.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 151: Spunkorama! [...] My wankerchief was permanently encrusted!