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▪ I. bingo1, n.|ˈbɪŋgəʊ|
[App. a humorous formation from B. for ‘brandy’ (cf. ‘B. and S.’) and stingo.]
A slang term for brandy.
1699B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Bingo, c. Brandy. Bingo-boy, c. a great Drinker or Lover thereof. Bingo-club, c. a set of Rakes, Lovers of that Liquor. 1750B.-M. Carew Apol. for Life 337 Bingo-Mort, a female drunkard, a she brandy drinker. 1839G. W. M. Reynolds Pickwick Abroad xxvi. 224 From morn to night we'll booze a ken, And we'll pass the bingo round. 1861Hughes Tom Brown Oxf. xxxiii. (D.) Some soda water with a dash of bingo clears one's head in the morning.
▪ II. bingo2|ˈbɪŋgəʊ|
[Of obscure origin, but cf. next.]
A modern development of lotto (sense 1), often played in public halls, etc., for prizes. Also attrib.
1936Time 21 Dec. 26/2 In many a U.S. Catholic diocese during the past few years the simple gambling game of bingo..has served as a prime money-raiser. 1949N. Streatfeild Painted Garden vi. 57 Such heavenly things were happening on deck... There was a game called Bingo. 1953Oxford Mail 21 Nov. 4/9 For some time now Bingo drives have been gaining in popularity at Oxford social gatherings. Bingo..is very closely akin to what used to be known as ‘Housey Housey’. 1958Economist 29 Nov. 798/1 While the essential elements of the game have provided amusement and diversion for centuries, bingo was named and introduced as a modern parlour game in 1929 by a toy manufacturer, Mr. Edwin Lowe. Each player has a card with 25 numbers between 1 and 75 arranged in a square, and the first to get five in a row as the numbers are called out cries ‘bingo’. 1964A. Wykes Gambling x. 250 British entrepreneurs have converted most of the nation's failing cinemas into thriving bingo halls.
▸ bingo wings n. slang folds of loose skin or fat which hang from the undersides of a person's upper arms.
Associated in particular with older women, who are regarded as the type of person most likely to play bingo (cf. quot. 1992).
1992Orange County (Calif.) Reg. 31 July q6/6 ‘We're working on her ‘*Bingo wings’’,..his joking reference to the fat deposits common in women's upper arms, fat deposits that flap in the breeze when they raise them as they shout, ‘Bingo!’ 2006Daily Tel. 12 Jan. 21/2 Avoid bingo wings by toning the triceps muscles at the back of the arm.
▪ III. bingo, int.|ˈbɪŋgəʊ|
[Echoic, cf. bing.]
= bing b; spec. an exclamation made by someone winning a game of bingo (see prec.). Also in the colloq. intensive phr. like bingo (see like adv. 1 b), = ‘like billy-o’.
1927E. Wallace Ringer (1952) xxiii. 93, I just laid my hands on him when—bingo! I was on the ground with four inches of good knife in me. 1931Wodehouse If I were You xi. 125 What ensued? Bingo! Eaten by bears! 1933M. Allingham Sweet Danger iv. 50, I just 'ad one look at 'im and came back 'ere like bingo. 1951J. B. Priestley Fest. Farbridge ii. ii. 222 If he can't do it, I will. Do it on my head—bingo! 1958[see prec.]. 1959N. Marsh False Scent (1960) i. 33 I've been drinking with The Management. Only two small ones, but on an empty tum: Bingo! |