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bingo

 : 
Interjection, Noun
 : 
bin=go

CIDE DICTIONARY

bingon. 
     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!”
    "Variants of the game may require that all peripheral numbers are covered, to form a box, or other figure. The numbers usually have one letter from the group “B”, “I”, “N”, “G”, and “O”, plus two digits. The “cards” may be disposable sheets of paper on which the numbers are printed."  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bingo, n. & int.
--n. a game for any number of players, each having a card of squares with numbers, which are marked off as numbers are randomly drawn by a caller.
--int. expressing sudden surprise, satisfaction, etc., as in winning at bingo.

Etymology
prob. imit.: cf. dial. bing 'with a bang'

THESAURUS

bingo

Monopoly, Ping-Pong, Rugby, Scrabble, archery, association football, backgammon, badminton, bagatelle, ball, bandy, baseball, basketball, battledore and shuttlecock, beano, billiards, bowling, bowls, boxing, card games, cat, catch, charades, checkers, chess, chuck and toss, chuck farthing, chuck-a-luck, class lottery, climbing, crack-loo, crambo, crap game, crap shooting, craps, cricket, croquet, curling, discus, dominoes, draft lottery, draughts, drawing, fishing, fives, football, ghost, gliding, go, golf, grab bag, handball, hazard, hide-and-seek, hiking, hockey, hopscotch, horse racing, horseshoes, hunting, hurdling, ice hockey, interest lottery, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, keno, lacrosse, lawn tennis, leapfrog, lottery, lotto, luging, marbles, merels, motorcycling, mountaineering, mumble-the-peg, ninepins, number lottery, numbers pool, pall-mall, pallone, pelota, pinball, pitch and toss, policy, polo, pool, post office, pushball, pyramids, quintain, quoits, racquets, raffle, riding, roller skating, rouge et noir, roulette, rounders, rowing, sailing, sailplaning, sculling, shell game, shinny, shooting, shot-put, shuffleboard, skating, skeet, skeet shooting, ski-jumping, skiing, skin-diving, skittles, sledding, snooker, snorkel diving, snowmobiling, soccer, softball, sports, squash, stickball, surfing, sweep, sweepstake, sweepstakes, table tennis, tennis, tenpins, tent pegging, tetherball, the numbers, the numbers game, ticktacktoe, tiddlywinks, tilting, tipcat, tivoli, tobogganing, tombola, tontine, trapshooting, trente-et-quarante, tug of war, volleyball, water polo, waterskiing, wrestling

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