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pakapoo

American  
[pak-uh-poo] / ˌpæk əˈpu /
Or pakapu

noun

  1. a Chinese lottery in which the tickets are sheets of paper bearing densely written characters.

pakapoo British  
/ ˈpækəpuː /

noun

  1. a Chinese lottery with betting slips marked with Chinese characters

  2. untidy, incomprehensible

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Etymology

Origin of pakapoo

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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