Bingo Definition

bĭnggō

bingos

noun

bingos

A game of chance in which each player has one or more cards printed with differently numbered squares on which to place markers when the respective numbers are drawn and announced by a caller. The first player to mark a complete row or other pattern of numbers is the winner.

American Heritage

A gambling game played with cards having rows of numbered squares, no two cards being numbered alike: players use markers to cover the numbered squares on their cards corresponding to numbers drawn by lot, and the player who first gets a row covered is the winner.

Webster's New World

A win in the game of bingo.

American Heritage

(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.

Wiktionary

(countable) A win in such a game.

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

Wiktionary

Synonyms:

interjection

Used to announce that one has won a game of bingo.

American Heritage

In the game of bingo, used to signify that one has just finished covering a row of squares.

Webster's New World

Used to express the sudden completion of an event, occurrence of an idea, or confirmation of a guess.

American Heritage

Used to signify sudden action, change, or success.

Webster's New World

Used by players of bingo to claim a win.

Wiktionary

adjective

(US, aviation slang, chiefly military) Just sufficient to return to base (or, alternatively, to divert to an alternative airfield). (also written Bingo or BINGO)

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Bingo

Noun

Singular:

bingo

Plural:

bingos

Origin of Bingo

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

From Wiktionary
Origin unknown

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition