Meaning

(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..

Definitions by Sense

1. (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.
2. (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:
3. (countable) A win in such a game.
4. (countable, Scrabble, US) A play where all seven of a player's letter tiles are played, awarding a score bonus.
5. Great, sudden, typically hard-to-predict success; the jackpot.
6. Used by players of bingo to claim a win.
7. (informal) Used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task.
8. (informal) Used to enthusiastically confirm or validate another speaker's point.

Example Sentences

He plays bingo with his family on Saturdays.

animal bingo (animal pictures), ABBA bingo (titles or lyrics of ABBA songs), buzzword bingo

There were two bingos in the last game, so the players split the prize money.

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.

‘Some big, hard-boiled egg meets up with a pretty face, and bingo! He cracks up and melts.’

Just have to pick the bfast, lunch and dinner I feel most like eating today and – bingo!

Megamind: Boingo! Minion: I think you mean "bingo", sir. Megamind: That's what I said. Boingo!

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 […]

Word Forms

• bingos
• Bingo
• bingoing
• bingoed

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