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pakapoo
or pak·a·pu
[ pak-uh-poo ]
noun
- a Chinese lottery in which the tickets are sheets of paper bearing densely written characters.
pakapoo
/ ˈpækəpuː /
noun
- a Chinese lottery with betting slips marked with Chinese characters
- like a pakapoo ticketlike a pakapoo ticket untidy, incomprehensible
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pakapoo1
1910–15; < dialectal Chinese, equivalent to Chinese báigē piào literally, white-pigeon ticket; compare Guangdong dial. baahk-gáap pigeon, piu ticket
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pakapoo1
C19: from Chinese
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