单词 | lucky dip |
释义 | lucky dipn. rare in U.S. use. A game, esp. at a fair or fête, in which players pay a small sum to pull a prize at random from a container holding a miscellaneous assortment of small prizes; the container itself. Also figurative with reference to something obtained at random or by chance. Cf. lucky bag n. 1a, bran-tub n. at bran n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > lucky dip, etc. lucky bag1788 bran-tub1858 bran-pie1877 lucky dip1878 fishpond1892 dip1915 1878 Manaro (New S. Wales) Mercury 11 Sept. The Japanese, with feats of legerdemain, and gifts and lucky dips, have been well patronised at Hewison's Hall during the week. 1900 Auckland (N.Z.) Star 6 Dec. 3/6 Misses R. Raynes and R. Walker had charge of the lucky dip. 1916 ‘Sapper’ Men, Women & Guns vi. 167 The lucky dip at a bazaar holds no more variegated procession of surprises than the mix up we call life. 1956 ‘J. Wyndham’ Seeds of Time 25 A sort of rigid, lucky-dip, take-it-or-leave-it system. 1967 P. Moyes Murder Fantastical xv. 219 Everything for the Lucky Dip is wrapped because of the bran. 1999 A. Desai Fasting, Feasting (2000) xi. 128 It would have stalls..where girls..supervised games of chance—lucky dips, pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, toss-the-hoop. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1878 |
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