bingo
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbɪŋ.ɡoʊ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (Southern England) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ
Etymology 1 edit
Alternative form of bing, suggesting a ringing sound. Attested since 1925.
Noun edit
bingo (countable and uncountable, plural bingos)
- (uncountable) A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.
- (uncountable) A similar game or amusement in which participants tick off themed words, phrases or pictures as these are called out, or as they are mentioned, for example during a speech or performance:
- animal bingo (animal pictures), ABBA bingo (titles or lyrics of ABBA songs), buzzword bingo
- (countable) A win in such a game.
- There were two bingos in the last game, so the players split the prize money.
- (countable, Scrabble, US) A play where all seven of a player's letter tiles are played, awarding a score bonus.
- Great, sudden, typically hard-to-predict success; the jackpot.
- 1986 April 19, Loie Hayes, Donna Deitch, “Leapin' Lesbians!”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
- An explosion of gay male movies has hit the U.S. in the past few months. Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Parting Glances and My Beautiful Laundrette, among others, have not only demonstrateed that the coming out story can be surpassed, they've also shown the movie industry that substantive gay portrayals can mean box office bingo.
Synonyms edit
- (game of chance): housey-housey, lotto
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Polish: bingo
Translations edit
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Interjection edit
bingo
- Used by players of bingo to claim a win.
- (informal) Used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task.
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 31:
- ‘Some big, hard-boiled egg meets up with a pretty face, and bingo! He cracks up and melts.’
- 2009 February 28, Megan Ogilvie, “Flex your plan for healthier eating”, in Toronto Star[1]:
- Just have to pick the bfast, lunch and dinner I feel most like eating today and – bingo!
- 2011 February 25, Alan Schoolcraft, Brent Simons, 7:35 from the start, in Simon J. Smith, director, Megamind: The Button of Doom (DVD/Blu-ray), Paramount Pictures:
- Megamind: Boingo!
Minion: I think you mean "bingo", sir.
Megamind: That's what I said. Boingo!
- (informal) Used to enthustically confirm or vindicate another speaker's point or contention.
Synonyms edit
- (used in bingo to claim a win): house!
- (when finding something): aha!, eureka!, got it!, that's it!, yes!
Translations edit
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Adjective edit
bingo (not comparable)
- (US, aviation slang, chiefly military, primarily of fuel) Just sufficient to return to base (or, alternatively, to divert to an alternative airfield). (also written Bingo or BINGO)
- 1993, Red River Valley Fighter Pilots, page 40:
- Well, the old pucker factor went up about 75 notches at that point cause that length of time would put my wingman below Bingo fuel, plus the thought of sitting in an orbit several miles West of the Yen Bai […]
- 2012, Larry R Gibson, Recollections of a Marine Attack Pilot, page 54:
- The first pilot to get down to this bingo fuel state would call, “Banjo 4, bingo fuel,” or whatever.
Verb edit
bingo (third-person singular simple present bingos, present participle bingoing, simple past and past participle bingoed)
- (intransitive) To play the game of bingo.
- (intransitive) To give the winning cry of "bingo!" in a game.
- (intransitive) To play all of one's seven tiles in one move in the game of Scrabble, earning a score bonus.
- 2009, Joe Edley, John Williams, Everything Scrabble: Third Edition, page 333:
- With IN on the board, he bingoed with OPERATING for 74 points, while Ann added the CO in front of it for 30 points.
- (intransitive, US, aviation slang, chiefly military) To return to base.
See also edit
- Kelly's eye
- man alive
- lucky for some
- Maggie's den, Major's den, Tony's den
- one fat lady
- doctor's orders
- legs eleven
- unlucky for some
- on its own
- sweet sixteen
- key of the door, key to the door
- two little ducks
- thee and me
- dirty Gertie
- more than eleven
- halfway there
- tweak of the thumb
- Brighton line
- red raw
- clickety-click
- bang on the drum
- trombones
- one more time
- stop and run
- between the sticks
- two fat ladies
- top of the shop
Etymology 2 edit
Perhaps related to stingo.
Noun edit
bingo (uncountable)
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bingo m (plural bingo's)
Interjection edit
bingo
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bingo (uncountable, accusative bingon)
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bingo
Declension edit
Inflection of bingo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | bingo | bingot | ||
genitive | bingon | bingojen | ||
partitive | bingoa | bingoja | ||
illative | bingoon | bingoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | bingo | bingot | ||
accusative | nom. | bingo | bingot | |
gen. | bingon | |||
genitive | bingon | bingojen | ||
partitive | bingoa | bingoja | ||
inessive | bingossa | bingoissa | ||
elative | bingosta | bingoista | ||
illative | bingoon | bingoihin | ||
adessive | bingolla | bingoilla | ||
ablative | bingolta | bingoilta | ||
allative | bingolle | bingoille | ||
essive | bingona | bingoina | ||
translative | bingoksi | bingoiksi | ||
abessive | bingotta | bingoitta | ||
instructive | — | bingoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Interjection edit
bingo
Further reading edit
- “bingo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bingo m (plural bingos)
Interjection edit
bingo
- bingo (all senses)
Greenlandic edit
Noun edit
bingo
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English bingo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bingo m (invariable)
- bingo (game)
Interjection edit
bingo
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
bingo m (definite singular bingoen, indefinite plural bingoer, definite plural bingoene)
Interjection edit
bingo
References edit
- “bingo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bingo m (definite singular bingoen, indefinite plural bingoar, definite plural bingoane)
Derived terms edit
Interjection edit
bingo
References edit
- “bingo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bingo n (indeclinable)
- bingo (game of chance)
- bingo fantowe ― raffle bingo
- gra bingo ― game of bingo
- salon bingo ― bingo hall
- gra w bingo ― a round of bingo
- grać w bingo ― to play bingo
- bingo (win)
- mieć bingo ― to have a bingo
- trafić bingo ― to hit a bingo
Declension edit
Usually in the singular.
or
Indeclinable.
Interjection edit
bingo
- bingo! (to claim a win in bingo)
- bingo! (used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task)
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ĩɡu
- Hyphenation: bin‧go
Noun edit
bingo m (plural bingos)
- (uncountable) bingo (game of chance)
Interjection edit
bingo!
- bingo (all senses)
- 2011 February 25, 7:55 from the start, in Pavlos Euthymiou, transl., Megamente: O Botão da Perdição [Megamind: The Button of Doom] (DVD/Blu-ray), Rio de Janeiro: Double Sound:
- Megamente (Cláudio Galvan): Boingo!
Criado (Mckeidy Lisita): O certo é dizer "bingo", senhor.
Megamente (Cláudio Galvan): Foi o que eu disse. Boingo!
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bingo m (plural bingos)
- bingo (game)
Further reading edit
- “bingo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Noun edit
bingo c
Declension edit
Declension of bingo | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | bingo | bingon | — | — |
Genitive | bingos | bingons | — | — |
Interjection edit
bingo