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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A lottery in which bets are made on an unpredictable number, such as a daily stock quotation.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A lottery in which bettors attempt to guess which numbers will later be drawn randomly.
  2. n. The use of inappropriate statistics (numbers) to reflect a desired result (usually misleading).

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an illegal daily lottery

Examples

  • “Oddly, one of Stuey’s biggest wins as a teenager came not from gin or poker but from the neighborhood numbers racket—a mob-run lottery very much like the daily numbers game that the state runs today, the difference being that the numbers are generated not from a drawing but from the last three or four numbers of the handle the total sum of that day’s wagers at one of the local racetracks.”

    Simon & Schuster: One of a Kind

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. lotto
  2. bingo
  3. despatcher
  1. push-ball
  2. chuck-luck
  3. game of chance
  1. beano
  2. blowpoint
  3. craps
  1. caller
  2. number
  3. policy
  1. gig
  2. keno
  3. eagle
  1. John Bull
  2. telegraph

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