pakapoo

or pak·a·pu

[ pak-uh-poo ]

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

Origin of pakapoo

1
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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British Dictionary definitions for pakapoo

pakapoo

/ (ˈpækəpuː) /


nounplural -poos Australian and NZ
  1. a Chinese lottery with betting slips marked with Chinese characters

  2. like a pakapoo ticket untidy, incomprehensible

Origin of pakapoo

1
C19: from Chinese

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