lotto
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oʊ noun
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2.
a lottery, as one operated by a state government, in which players choose numbers that are matched against those of the official drawing, the winning numbers typically paying large cash prizes.
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| —n | |
| 1. | Compare bingo Also called: housey-housey a children's game in which numbered discs, counters, etc, are drawn at random and called out, while the players cover the corresponding numbers on cards, the winner being the first to cover all the numbers, a particular row, etc |
| 2. | a lottery |
| [C18: from Italian, from Old French lot, from Germanic. See | |
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Lotto
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Word Origin & History
lotto
1778, "type of card game," from It. lotto "a lot," from O.Fr. lot "lot," from Frank. (cf. O.E., O.Fris. hlot, see lot). Meaning "a lottery" is attested from 1787.
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Example sentences
In addition, the three-point shot has created a kind of lotto fever.
My goal or plan is to read the local lotto winnings every week.
He scored a few small hits along the way, which nourished his lotto fever.
As long as poor folk dominate those playing the lotto and visiting the casinos, then that funding mechanism doesn't work either.
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