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pakapoo

pakapoo noun: a Chinese lottery game popular in Oceania in the 19th century, involving tickets marked with rows of Chinese characters.

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

Forms of pakapoo

alternative formpak-a-pu
alternative formpak-ah-pu
alternative formpak kop piu
alternative formpak hop piu

Origin of pakapoo

From Cantonese, perhaps 白鴿票／白鸽票 (baak6 gaap3-2 biu1).

Words formed from pakapoo

Questions about pakapoo

What does pakapoo mean?
Pakapoo means a Chinese lottery game popular in Oceania in the 19th century, involving tickets marked with rows of Chinese characters.
What part of speech is pakapoo?
Pakapoo is a noun.

Words near pakapoo in the dictionary

  1. Pak.
  2. pakalolo
  3. pakalolos
  4. pakamac
  5. pakamacs
  6. pakapoo
  7. pakat
  8. Pakawa
  9. Pakawan
  10. Pakawara
  11. Pakawas

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