combining form of AMERICA, as in Americo-mania, a craze for what is American.
1798. W. Taylor, in Month. Rev., XXVI. 527. Their Americo-mania he seems to consider as a criminal heresy, which it is a duty to expose and to combat.
1836. Morning Post, 3 June, 5/4. He combated the Anglo-mania; but war introduced a still more terrible scourge, which he (the Hon. Deputy) would call the Americo-mania.
1882. World, 11 Jan. Americomania has reached a point when a writer is gravely taken to task … for calling Transatlantic meesses ‘eccentric.’
