bingo

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪŋ.ɡoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ

Alternate form of bing, suggesting a ringing sound. Attested since 1925.

bingo (countable and uncountable, plural bingos)

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. (countable) A win in such a game.

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

3. (countable, Scrabble) A play where all seven of a player's letter tiles are played.

• (game of chance): housey-housey, lotto

bingo

1. Used by players of bingo to claim a win.
2. (informal) Used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task.
   • 2009 February 28, Megan Ogilvie, “Flex your plan for healthier eating”, in Toronto Star‎:

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

3. (informal) Used to declare "You've just made my point!" or "My point exactly!"

• (used in bingo to claim a win): house!
• (when finding something): aha!, eureka!, got it!, that's it!, yes!

bingo (not comparable)

1. (US, aviation slang, chiefly military) 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.

bingo (third-person singular simple present bingos, present participle bingoing, simple past and past participle bingoed)

1. (intransitive) To play the game of bingo.
2. (intransitive) To give the winning cry of "bingo!" in a game.
3. (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.

4. (intransitive, US, aviation slang, chiefly military) To return to base.

Perhaps related to stingo.

bingo (uncountable)

1. (slang, obsolete) Brandy.

• Gobin, bigon, bog in, boing

Borrowed from English bingo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪŋ.ɡoː/

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• Hyphenation: bin‧go

bingo m (plural bingo's)

1. bingo (a game of chance)
2. bingo (a win in that game of chance)

bingo

1. bingo; expression to claim a win in bingo.
2. bingo; expression to indicate that a hit has been landed or that one has an idea.

• Hyphenation: bin‧go

bingo

1. bingo

• bingota

bingo

1. bingo

• IPA^(key): /bɛ̃.ɡo/

bingo m (plural bingos)

1. bingo

bingo

1. bingo (all senses)

bingo

1. bingo

Borrowed from English bingo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbin.ɡo/

bingo m (invariable)

1. bingo (game)

bingo!

1. bingo!

bingo m (plural bingos)

1. (uncountable) bingo (game of chance)

Borrowed from English bingo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbinɡo/, [ˈbĩŋɡo]

bingo m (plural bingos)

1. bingo (game)