Bank Night

[ bangk-nahyt ]

nounInformal.
  1. (in the 1930s) an evening when prizes were awarded by lottery to members of the audience at a movie theater as part of a promotion to encourage theater patronage.

Origin of Bank Night

1
An Americanism dating back to 1935–40

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