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单词 pakapu
释义 pakapoo, pakapu|ˈpækəpuː, pækəˈpuː|
Also pak-a-peu, puka pu, etc.
[Chinese.]
A Chinese gambling game resembling lottery with sheets of paper so marked as to be indecipherable except to an initiate. Phr. like a pakapoo ticket, untidy, disordered (Austral.).
1911L. Stone Jonah ix. 92 He had come down early to mark a pak-ah-pu ticket at the Chinaman's in Hay Street.1913Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 155/1 All kinds of games of chance—‘two up’, ‘pak-a-pu’ (the latter a form of lottery imported by the Chinese).1923Daily Mail 12 Feb. 7 Five Chinese pleaded guilty at Liverpool Assizes to charges of running a gaming house... For the defence it was argued that Pak-a-Peu (or Puck-a-pu) was a game of skill.1927Daily Express 21 Sept. 7/2 A Japanese ship's captain..appealed against a conviction..for employing two other Japanese to sell chances in an unlawful lottery known as ‘Puka pu’. ‘It is a favourite game with the Japanese and Chinese and others living in Limehouse,’ explained Mr. Horace Fenton.1932H. Simpson Boomerang x. 275 Brought in evidence two flimsy pieces of printed paper, one a pakapu bet, the other a five-pound-note.1936‘R. Hyde’ Passport to Hell i. 10 Chinese grocery-shops, masonic clubs, and pakapoo saloons.1951E. Lambert Twenty Thousand Thieves (1952) ix. 89 Henry opened Dooley's pay-book, the pages of which showed liberal sprinklings of the red ink with which fines and convictions were entered. ‘What a pay-book!’ he sighed. Dooley grinned. ‘Like a pak-a-poo ticket,’ he agreed.1959Baker Drum 133 Marked like a pakapoo ticket, confusedly or incomprehensibly marked.1960N.Z. Listener 22 July 9/2 Some of the last of the old Chinese dwellings of the opium-smoking and pakapoo-playing generation are being pulled down in Haining Street in Wellington.1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1212/1 Look like a pakapu ticket, to be completely indecipherable: Australian (esp. Sydney) coll.: since ca. 1940. ‘Pakapu is a Chinese gambling game, not unlike housie. A pakapu ticket, when filled, is covered with strange markings’.1964A. Wykes Gambling 330 The only illegal gambling games in New South Wales are fan-tan, another Chinese game called pak-a-p, and two-up.
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