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Win all the prizes?
Answer for the clue "Win all the prizes? ", 11 letters:
sweepstakes
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants [syn: sweepstake ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of sweepstake English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"prize won in a race or contest," 1773, from Middle English swepestake "one who sweeps or wins all the stakes in a game" (late 14c. as a surname or nickname; late 15c. as the name of one of the King's ships), from swepen "to sweep" (see sweep (v.)) + stake ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sweepstakes is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Albert S. Rogell from a screenplay written by Lew Lipton and Ralph Murphy . The film stars Eddie Quillan , James Gleason , Marian Nixon , Lew Cody , and Paul Hurst , which centers around the ...
Usage examples of sweepstakes.
I saw space between his feet and the floor, but when he spoke, the fact that my fiancé was defying the laws of gravity fell to second place in the creepy sweepstakes.
The synapsids are going to take a major hit in the evolutionary sweepstakes.
Plus, I think Bridget has a right to know that Manda picked her boyfriend as the lucky winner in the Devirginization Sweepstakes.
But they were a longshot entry in the galactic sweepstakes anyway, for their sludgy metabolism was simply too slow to compete with warmer, quicker races.
She subscribes to all the women's magazines and enters the sweepstakes.
What we'd like to operate is a sweepstakes, but the antigambling laws on Earth forbid that.
After some argument Sweepstakes tickets were made valuta at a discount, $2.
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People wanted new cars, or money to pay off their mortgages, or to win the Publisher's Clearinghouse sweepstakes.
By now the proliferous gaming houses, the interstellar numbers service, the randoma-tic sweepstakes, were only froth on the Wheel's activities.
They hit the royal flush/Irish Sweepstakes jackpot--Jimmy Hoffa would SHIT when he heard it.
Which is pretty sleepy until the next week, when my brother's agency announces the big Simoleons Sweepstakes.
It is not the Company's wish that the Smoke Room Steward or other members of the ship's personnel should play an active part in organizing sweepstakes on the daily run.