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pakapoo

American

[pak-uh-poo] / ˌpæk əˈpu /

Or pakapu

noun

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

pakapoo British

/ ˈpækəpuː /

noun

a Chinese lottery with betting slips marked with Chinese characters
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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