bingo n : a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards [syn: lotto, beano, keno]

see Bingo

English

Etymology

Alternate form of bing, suggesting a ringing sound (1925).

Pronunciation

• a UK /ˈbɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
• a US /ˈbɪŋ.ɡoʊ/
• Rhymes with: -ɪŋɡəʊ

Noun

1. 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.
2. A win in such a game.

   There were two bingos in the last game, so the players split the prize money.

3. countable Scrabble A play where all seven letter tiles are played.

Usage notes

Synonyms

• sense game of chance housey-housey, lotto

Derived terms

• bingo caller
• bingo hall
• bingo wings
• bullshit bingo

Translations

Interjection

1. Used by players of bingo to claim a win.
2. Used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall.
3. Similarly, used to declare "You've just made my point!" or "My point exactly!".

Synonyms

• sense used in bingo to claim a win house!
• sense when finding something aha!, eureka!, got it!, that's it!, yes!

Translations

See also

• Kelly's eye
• man alive
• lucky for some
• Maggie's den, Major's den, Tony's den
• one fat lady
• doctor's orders
• legs eleven
• unlucky for some
• on its own
• sweet sixteen
• key of the door, key to the door
• two little ducks
• thee and me
• dirty Gertie
• more than eleven
• halfway there
• tweak of the thumb
• Brighton line
• red raw
• clickety-click
• bang on the drum
• trombones
• one more time
• stop and run
• between the sticks
• two fat ladies
• top of the shop

Spanish

Noun

bingo m

1. bingo (game)

Bingo may refer to:

• Bingo (US), a game using a printed ticket of 5x5 numbers most commonly played in the USA and Canada with randomly generated numbers
• Bing Bing! Bingo, a Super Famicom video game
• Bingo (UK), or Housie, a game using a printed ticket of 15 numbers on three lines most commonly played in the UK, Australia and New Zealand
• Online bingo, games played on the Internet
• Keno, a bingo-like gambling game played in the USA.
• Bingo (card game)
• Bingo Province, an old province of Japan
• Bingo, a department in the African country Burkina Faso
• Bingo wings, slang for an anatomical feature
• Bingo (Scrabble), a term used in Scrabble in North America

Acronym

• Big International Non-Government Organisation

Arts

• Bingo (play), a play by Edward Bond about the last days of William Shakespeare
• "Bingo (song)", a song about a dog
• "Bingo", a song by British rapper M.I.A
• Bingo (film), a 1991 film about a dog
• Bingo, a 1998 CGI short film by Chris Landreth based on a one-act play by Greg Kotis, in which a young man is terrorized into believing that he is a circus clown
• Bingo!, a 1985 non-fiction book by Roger Caron about the 1971 Kingston Penitentiary riot
• Bingo, the Cracker Jack dog
• Bingo, the gorilla character from the Banana Splits T.V. series
• Bilbo Baggins, a member of the Baggins family in the J. R. R. Tolkien books
• Bingo Beats, a record label
• Bingoboys, a dance music trio
• Bingo Brown, the preteen protagonist of four novels by Betsy Byars, known as That Wilkin Boy
• Bingo Little, a character in a number of books by comic author P. G. Wodehouse
• Bingo Long, in the movie The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
• Buck Bingo, the name used for Lucky Luke in the comic book Giggle
• Bingo (album), a solo album by Bela B., a member of the German band Die Ärzte
• Bingo (musical), a 2005 Off Broadway musical play with music by Michael Heitzman, David Holcenberg and Ilene Reid

People

• Bingo DeMoss, a professional baseball player
• Bingo Smith, a professional basketball player

Other

• Binghamton, New York, colloquial

See also

• Bovine bingo
• Buzzword bingo

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