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Bank Night
[ bangk nahyt ]
noun
, Informal.
- (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.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Bank Night1
An Americanism dating back to 1935–40
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