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pakapu

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pak⋅a⋅poo

  [pak-uh-poo]
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–noun
a Chinese lottery in which the tickets are sheets of paper bearing densely written characters.
Also, pak⋅a⋅pu.

Origin:
1910–15; < dial. Chin, equiv. to Chin báigē piào lit., white-pigeon ticket; cf. Guangdong dial. baahk-gáap pigeon, piu ticket
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