bingo card

American  

noun

1. a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.

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Etymology

Origin of bingo card

First recorded in 1985–90; so called from the series of coded numbers on such cards, apparently suggesting the cards used in bingo

Example Sentences

To make his end-of-February deal marathon more entertaining, Mikula pulled up a bingo card with self-imposed challenges in each space like calling 50 dealerships for quotes on one car.

From The Wall Street Journal

With that acknowledged, I still entered 2022 with a standard bingo card in mind, or rather a mindless list of expectations for the year that weren’t too farfetched: Billionaires would keep their money, artists from my heyday would reemerge with Christmas albums or reality shows, and longtimers in Congress would remain constant.

From Salon

Hearing him tell a crowd that I was an inspiration wasn’t on my bingo card, either, after I felt I had been powerless to help him.

From Salon

As Ryan Detrick, chief market strategist at the Carson Group, said to MarketWatch on Saturday: “To think we are going to have a calm start to March probably isn’t on anyone’s bingo card.”

From MarketWatch

“I don’t think anybody had that on their bingo card coming into 2026,” said Stephen Hoedt, head of equities at Key Private Bank.

From MarketWatch