| 单词 | to write policy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto write policy c. U.S. A form of gambling in which bets are made on numbers to be drawn by lottery. Frequently in to write policy. Now chiefly historical.Recorded earliest in policy certificate n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > betting on lotteries > [noun] policy business1804 policy1879 numbers1897 numbers game1935 numbers drop1968 1830 Baltimore Amer. 26 Aug. 3/2 (advt.) To Adventurers and the Public. Policy Certificates, in the greatest variety, Whole and Shares, Constantly for Sale. 1879 H. E. Sickels Rep. Court of Appeals N.Y. 29 64 He testified that he paid to the defendant, at different times, sums amounting to $3,601.08 for tickets in a Kentucky lottery and in ‘playing policy’, as it is called. 1890 J. A. Riis How Other Half Lives (1891) xiii. 155 The game of policy is a kind of unlawful penny lottery. 1944 Crisis June 189/2 He even tried writing policy, but the players didn't like him. He couldn't shop the proper degree of sympathy when someone played 341 and 342 came out. 1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues 133 During the Depression..many impoverished Negroes wrote policy in the hopes of winning sufficient to feed their families. 1991 L. Sante Low Life ii. iv. 154 Policy, which is to say, a system of wagering on figures that most often represented combinations derived from the numbers of winning lottery tickets, existed in the eighteenth century. < as lemmas |
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