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pak-a-pu

pak-a-pu is the alternative form of pakapoo.

Meaning of pakapoo

Noun

pakapoo (uncountable)

  1. A Chinese lottery game popular in Oceania in the 19th century, involving tickets marked with rows of Chinese characters.
    • He can feel the cloud coming down: eight hundred owed to Charlie, another hundred to the Chinaman who runs a pakapoo game alongside the apples and bananas.2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 63

Questions about pak-a-pu

What is pak-a-pu the alternative form of?
Pak-a-pu is the alternative form of pakapoo.

Words near pak-a-pu in the dictionary

  1. pak pai
  2. pak pais
  3. Pak Sha Wan
  4. pak tong gou
  5. Pak-
  6. pak-a-pu
  7. pak-ah-pu
  8. Pak.
  9. pakalolo
  10. pakalolos
  11. pakamac

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