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Bingo
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bingo
English
Proper noun
en male.
en Charles Walcott Russell Act I The Prisoner of Andersonville: A Military Drama in Four Acts New York, N.Y. Dick & Fitzgerald,Publishers, 18 Ann Street 1903 7–8 https://archive.org/details/prisonerofanders00russ/page/7/mode/1up 5702939 Bingo! Bingo! Where is the rascal, I wonder. ENTER Bingo, r. 2, with glass of cream,
en Ernest M. Wampler Living in a Cave Home and Moving to Liao China Suffers or My Six Years of Work During the Incident Elgin, Ill. Brethren Publishing House 1945 part 1 (The Coming of the Japanese Army) 45 https://archive.org/details/chinasuffersormy0000erne/page/45/mode/1up 3431304 Our dog, Bingo, was determined not to be left behind;
en w:Jean Merrill The Travels of Marco https://archive.org/details/travelsofmarco00merr/page/n35/mode/1up New York, N.Y. w:Alfred A. Knopf 1956 56-5079 Marco stopped to talk with a boy named Bingo Brown. Bingo was eating frozen peas from a supermarket package.
en bingo game of chance.
en w:Rachel Simon Into Out There Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey Boston, Mass. Houghton Mifflin Company 2002 section “March” 71 https://archive.org/details/ridingbuswithmys00simo/page/71/mode/1up 0-618-04599-6 We like playing Bingo, which is good because Beth is in special ed classes in school now, and they’re teaching her letters and numbers, and Mommy tries to help her by playing Bingo.
en Donnie J. Wilbanks Being a Caregiver Applied Psychology in Health Care Clifton Park, N.Y. Delmar, Cengage Learning 2009 90 https://archive.org/details/appliedpsycholog0000wilb/page/90/mode/1up 978-1-4180-5348-2 Help her talk about the simple things she enjoys in life—her favorite television program, donuts on Friday mornings, playing Bingo with her friends.
en w:Janet Evanovich 5 Takedown Twenty A Stephanie Plum Novel New York, N.Y. w:Bantam Books 2013 50 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780345542885/page/50/mode/1up 978-0-345-54288-5 She was a nice person, but she was blind as a bat. She couldn’t see a Bingo card if it was as big as a barn. Poor Lois Fratelli used to play Bingo there too.
Interjection
en bingo.
en w:Ngaio Marsh Ramsdyke w:Clutch of Constables London The Companion Book Club 1968 125 https://archive.org/details/clutchofconstabl0000unse/page/125/mode/1up 873246929 The discovery of this woman’s body suddenly threw a complex of apparently unrelated incidents into an integrated whole. You grind away at routine, you collect a vast amount of data ninety-per-cent of which is useless and then—some thing happens and Bingo—the other ten-per-cent sits up like Jacky and Bob’s your uncle.
en Kerry Daly Andrea Anger Among Prospective Adoptive Parents: Structural Determinants and Management Strategies Clinical Sociology Review 7 East Lansing, Mich. w:Michigan State University Press 1989 section “Theories and Methods of Clinical Sociology” 84 https://archive.org/details/isbn_0870132733/page/84/mode/1up 0-87013-273-3 0730-840X I have this feeling of inadequacy because I can’t have any children. As a little girl, you’re playing with dolls and all this and you’re prepared right from when you are a little one. You’re prepared for this whole thing and then Bingo!—you can’t and you have to start thinking differently.
en Robert Dudley; Marc A. DeSimone, Sr. Around 3:00 A.M. Mount Weather, VA Last Shepherd: A Novel Middletown, Del. 13 October 2015 189 https://archive.org/details/lastshepherd0000dudl/page/189/mode/1up 9781517131661 "Hey Doug, what if you draw a line connecting each location; what does it look like to you?" / Doug mulls over the question for a second, sensing Marcello may be onto something. Then the light bulb goes on. "It looks like a set up for your basic three prong attack, is what it looks like." / "Exactly, Bingo . . . If you were going to hit the U.S. from the South, you would cut off the major transportation arteries and then make your push northward at three points to provide maximum flexible response."
German
Pronunciation
de De-Bingo.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
n,(s).sg
bingo (game)
Declension
n,(s).sg
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