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bancoing

[bang-koh, bahng-]

ban·co

[bang-koh, bahng-] noun, plural -cos, verb
noun
1.
a declaration made by a bettor in certain gambling games, as baccarat and chemin de fer, indicating a bet matching the full amount in the bank, to the exclusion of all previous lower bets: often used as an interjection.
verb (used without object)
2.
to make such a declaration.

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Bancoing is always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1745–55; < French < Italian < Germanic; see bank2
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