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Get rid of game of skill - here's game of chance
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bingo
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bingo is an album by the Rova Saxophone Quartet featuring compositions by Lindsay Cooper , Barry Guy , Fred Frith , and Larry Ochs which was recorded in 1996 and released on the Canadian Victo label.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bingo \bingo\ n. a game commonly used for low-stakes gambling, in which numbered balls or slips are drawn at random and players cover the correponding numbers on their cards, called Bingo cards, which have square arrangement of such numbers. Each card has ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lotto-like game of chance, 1936; many theories about its origin, none satisfying; the most likely is bingo! as an exclamation of sudden realization or surprise (attested from 1923). Uncertain connection to the slang word for "brandy" (1690s); attested as ...
Usage examples of bingo.
A pretty, black-haired girl in bright green slacks was sitting on the front steps, and Bingo paused.
Bingo, brought the opener from the kitchen, handed Bingo his cigarettes, and then disappeared into the improvised darkroom.
He was polishing a pair of steel-rimmed glasses as Bingo and Handsome approached, and when they paused in front of him, he placed the glasses carefully astride his nose and peered out through them amiably.
Of : course, he reminded himself quickly, as though the very question had been a disloyalty, Bingo would know what to do next.
He was interested, it seemed, not only in the one-legged pigeon, but in Bingo and Handsome themselves, and even in the International Foto, Motion Picture, and Television Corporation of America.
Damn it, Bingo thought, conversation had gotten right back to where it had started, on Bolivar Hill.
How would that affect pigeons, Bingo wondered, and should he say something about it?
He slipped his hands into his pockets and stood smiling at Bingo and Handsome.
Then suddenly, before Bingo could make a move, the little man was standing beside the door.
Gentle and friendly, like that tonsil doctor who used to visit the orphan asylum when Bingo was seven.
She looked very cute, Bingo thought, in that little black dress with the white lace collar and the big black hat.
A very elegant place, Bingo reflected, even if it was a bit mussed up at the moment.
As Bingo stood wondering what to do, he heard a key going into the lock.
Her figure was something Bingo was going to remember for a long, long time.
Handsome and Bingo had promised to come and visit June Logan sometime, and had taken her address and telephone number.