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Definition: Bingo |
BingoNoun1. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Post & Telecom | A radioed call from aircrew meaning that the fuel state is below a certain critical level. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | BINGO. Brandy or other spirituous liquor. Cant. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Sports & Leisure | A game resembling lotto or keno, the card used being a grid on which five numbers that are covered in a row in any direction constitute a win. . also called beano. . Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The caller continues to select and announce numbers until the first player forms the agreed pattern on his card and shouts out the name of the pattern. The most common pattern, called house, simply consists of marking all the numbers on the card.
There are traditional calls for the numbers. For example:
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Bingo is a gambling card game named by analogy to the board game bingo. Each player is dealt X cards and Y cards are dealt face down in common. The value of each hand is the sum of the values of each card, where the cards have blackjack values. The cards on the board are gradually revealed with opportunities to bet along the way. Bingo is usually played high-low with the pot being split between the players with the highest and lowest point totals. The exception would be if one player loses all his cards he takes the entire pot.One example of play is "Sixty Six Bingo". Each player gets six cards and there are six common cards. In this case there would be rounds of betting before any common cards are turned over, after the first two cards are turned over, after the third and fourth cards are turned over and after the fifth and sixth cards are turned over.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bingo."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BINGO | English | Business non-governmental organisation | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BingoSynonyms: beano (n), keno (n), lotto (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bingo |
| Specialty definitions using "bingo": BINGO BOY, BINGO MORT ♦ FLOOR ATTENDANT. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bingo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (bingo), Portuguese (bingo), Serbo-Croatian (bingo), Spanish (bingo), Swedish (bingo), Turkish (bingo, jackpot). |
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Screenplays | Bingo, man, bingo (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss) Anyway, once upon a time, there was a big, mean lion who got a thorn in his paw. All the villagers tried to pull it out, but nobody was strong enough, so they got Hercules and he used his mighty strength, and bingo! Anyway, the moral is, is that the lion was so happy, that he gave Hercules this big thing of riches (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) It's your uncle Bingo. Time to pay the check (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Sam Hamm) That's one more for exotic bird bingo! I am loving this (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal) Bingo! I've got every city phone number you could ever need in here (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bingo (1974) Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) Music Bingo (1958) Bingo Crosbyana (1936) The Bully of Bingo Gulch (1911) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Game of bingo, state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bingo game, July 4th celebration. State College, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bingo players. Las Vegas, Nevada. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bingo tent at the carnival in Vale, Oregon, on the Fourth of July. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Bingo" affords amuseument for the guests at Sarasota trailer park. Sarasota, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Bingo." Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Bingo caller calling out bingo numbers and letters, a male participant says "bingo". |
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Worker Rights | Colombia | Traffickers disguise their intent by running media ads offering jobs, portraying themselves as modeling agents, offering marriage brokerage services, or operating lottery or bingo scams with free trips as prizes. (references) |
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| "Bingo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.49% of the time. "Bingo" is used about 265 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.49% | 261 | 18,276 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.13% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 265 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bingo": bingo-caller, bingo-playing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bingo | 13,387 | play bingo | 141 |
free bingo | 2,768 | pogo bingo | 135 |
bingo game | 1,189 | bingo com | 122 |
online bingo | 1,160 | bingo palace | 114 |
free bingo game | 1,082 | free bingo site | 111 |
free bingo online | 648 | free bingo for cash | 106 |
bingo supply | 544 | baby bingo | 99 |
bingo card | 384 | ez win bingo | 82 |
bingo canada | 318 | bingo directory | 81 |
bingo bugle | 261 | gamesville bingo | 79 |
bingo game online | 224 | bingo site | 78 |
internet bingo | 222 | bridal bingo | 75 |
bingo zone | 212 | play free bingo online | 75 |
yahoo bingo | 206 | oneida bingo and casino | 70 |
bingo equipment | 204 | bingo blitz | 70 |
play free bingo | 196 | baby shower bingo | 69 |
cyber bingo | 192 | printable bingo card | 68 |
free online bingo game | 184 | uproar bingo blitz | 66 |
play bingo online | 145 | bridal shower bingo | 65 |
bingo hall | 144 | blank bingo card | 63 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bingo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | бинго. (various references) | |
Chinese | 宾果游戏. (various references) | |
Czech | loto. (various references) | |
Danish | bingo. (various references) | |
Farsi | یکنوع بازی شبیه لوتو. (various references) | |
French | bingo. (various references) | |
German | bingo. (various references) | |
Greek | μπίνγκο, λοταρία (raffle), τυχερό παιγνίδι. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bingó. (various references) | |
Italian | bingo, tombola (tombola, tumble). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "ル風 (binding, eddies of wind around high buildings, foot fastening, green pepper, pea coat, pea jacket, peace, peach, peacock, peahen, peak, peanut, peanut butter, peanuts, peas, peek, peep show, Peeping Tom, people, people's capitalism, Peter Pan syndrome, Piaget, pianica, pianist, piano, piano and harmonica, piazza, piece, piecework, piercer, pimento, PR, public relations, Russian food, velvet, village, vintage, vintage year). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "ンゴ . (various references) | |
Korean | 빙 (icehouse). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingobay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bingo. (various references) | |
Russian | лото (lotto), бинго. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bingo, vrsta tombole. (various references) | |
Spanish | bingo. (various references) | |
Swedish | bingo. (various references) | |
Thai | เกมบิงโก. (various references) | |
Turkish | bingo oyunu, bingo (jackpot), tam isabet (direct hit). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бінго, бренді (brandy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bingo": bingos. (additional references) | |
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"Bingo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bagno, Bagnol, bago, bango, Bangroo, Bengi, benglog, Bengzon, beno, benzo, Bhingi, Biagi, biang, bienge, Bignold, Bigo, bigol, bigow, Bijnor, binbo, bineo, binga, bingge, Bingie, Bingol, bingr, Bingu, bingy, binno, bino, Binot, Bintou, b'now, Bongi, Bungo, byggdok, byngs, cigno, gingo, ingo, kingo, pingo, zingo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bingo" (pronounced bi"nggō) |
| 4 | -i" ng g ō | dingo, flamingo, gringo, lingo. |
| 3 | -ng g ō | Congo, mango, Mungo, pengo, tango. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: boing. | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-n-o" | |
-1 letter: bong. | |
-2 letters: big, bin, bio, bog, gib, gin, gob, ion, nib, nob, nog, obi. | |
-3 letters: bi, bo, go, in, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-n-o" | |
+1 letter: bagnio, bingos, biogen, boding, boning, booing, boring, bowing, boxing, gabion, gibbon, gibson, globin, goblin, orbing, robing. | |
+2 letters: aboding, bagnios, begonia, bighorn, biltong, biogens, biogeny, blowing, boating, bobbing, bodings, bodying, boffing, bogging, boiling, bolling, bolting, bombing, bonding, bonging, bonking, boobing, booking, booming, booting, boozing, bopping, borings, bossing, bousing, bowings, bowling, bowsing, boxings, broking, buoying, combing, fobbing, gabions, gibbons, gibsons, globing, globins, gobbing, goblins, hobbing, hoboing, ignoble, ignobly, jobbing, lobbing, mobbing, obeying, probing, robbing, sobbing, sorbing, tombing, wingbow. | |
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