Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A game of chance in which each player has one or more cards printed with differently numbered squares on which to place markers when the respective numbers are drawn and announced by a caller. The first player to mark a complete row of numbers is the winner.
- interj. Used to express the sudden completion of an event, occurrence of an idea, or confirmation of a guess.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A game of dominoes essentially identical with the card game of sixty-six. See sixty-six.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.
- n. countable A win in such a game.
- n. countable, Scrabble A play where all seven letter tiles are played.
- interj. Used by players of bingo to claim a win.
- interj. informal Used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall.
- interj. informal Similarly, used to declare "You've just made my point!" or "My point exactly!".
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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 a different arrangement of the numbers, and the first player to cover all numbers in one row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) is the winner, usually announcing that fact by a cry of “Bingo!”
WordNet 3.0
- n. a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards
Etymologies
- Alternate form of bing, suggesting a ringing sound (1925). (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Mr. Booker manages his own retirement account and what he calls a "bingo account" for stock plays.”
“Another advantage given by online bingo is that each player is able to interact with other bingo lovers.”
“UK bingo is also the superior product offered by cheeky bingo.”
“One of the online casino sites where people can read about bingo reviews and then access to play internet bingo is from Ballsupbingo. co.uk.”
“As for night cover detectives, where I come from its 6 per night for the county with a cover Det Insp. Also the problem with bullsh*t bingo is that you always start laughing. on September 26, 2007 at 8: 08 am | Reply Bewildered at Dawn”
“Political analysts say Estrada may have angered Singson by giving businessman Charlie Ang, a presidential buddy, control over a new -- and legitimate -- gambling game called bingo 2 ball.”
“Wynn learned the basics by working for his father in bingo establishments and worked as a slot and keno manager in his early days.”
Bartolotta Ristorante de Mare – Travel to the Italian Seaside Without the Jetlag
“On that day at the checkpoint some people were detained in the concrete cell because their name bingo-ed on the computer list.”
“The machines that they call bingo machines are not bingo machines at all," Byrne told”
“He hit around +7 or so in his buzzword bingo score by our count, not bad for the bit more than two sentences we could bear to quote.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bingo’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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MANY A WORD!
This is just a list, right, that I'm gonna, like, fill with words, that, like, are every word that I can, like, think of with, ahhmm, my brain.
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Nigerian English
This list was inspired by this article. Any Nigerians out there care to add to it?
chop house, felicitate, jubilate, cutlass, waterloo, tout, urchin, gripe water, vulcanizer, miscreant, can of worms, sorry-o and 121 more...
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All Things Scrabble
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
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MIX DES CULTURES
french words & english ones
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deegee's Words
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...:::bella:::...
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bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Let's Play
Classic Children's Toys and Games and Amusements
colorforms, jacks, hopscotch, louisville slugger, duncan imperial, flexible flyer, radio flyer, troll doll, dam doll, pick-up sticks, silly putty, marbles and 155 more...
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A Dalliance of Dahlias
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A Myriad of Iriia la mode, ace o' hearts, acclimation, adhesion, admirable, adorable you, advance, affirmed, after glow, agricola, alabama melody, alabaster queen and 1152 more...
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Apples to Apples: Red Cards
A complete list of the red cards (things) from the popular word game.
bad haircut, carnival workers, grave robbers, Chinatown, a cheap motel, killer whales, UV rays, flat tire, Japan, Michelangelo, Alfred Hitchcock, Cindy Crawford and 734 more...
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Words for the last day of the year
beano, bingo, beanfeast, tumescence, nibble, nuzzle, tease, fondle, play, straddle, grind, climax and 7 more...
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interesting names
kirkwood, magdelena, rudyard, fielding, remington, crusoe, garrison, zelda, clementine, delilah, garret, hazel and 12 more...
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How to Make a Facebook Game, Part 2
Step #1: Pick a noun
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Step #4: Profit?café, monster, mall, zoo, fashion, resort, fish, slot, bar, bubble, bingo, gift and 19 more...
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"Let's go strap on the ole air'chine ...
Aviation, especially aerobatic aviation, has been quite aptly described as the "most fun you can have with your clothes on". There are a ton of colorful and cryptolexical words that have evolved i...
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for bingo.
bilby Nigerian English - 1. Dog 2. Cooked dog meat. See Four-o-four. 3. Common dog name in Nigeria. Sep 17, 2008
asativum Also a P.G. Wodehouse character: Bingo Little, went to school with Bertie Wooster (and is fond of reminding him of such). Loves not wisely, nor terribly well for the most part. Participant in The Great Sermon Handicap. Jan 26, 2008
mollusque That's one of my pet peeves. They should be called scrabbles not bingos. Why drag in a different game? Jan 25, 2008
john Also when a scrabble player uses all seven letters in one play. Jan 24, 2008
oroboros In aviation (especially military): the equivalent of "Hmmmm...time to RTB (return to base), I'm bingo fuel." The fuel needed to RTB with required reserves for, say, a missed approach and/or holding for weather. Jan 24, 2008