Bingo is a game in which each player has a card with numbers on. Someone calls out numbersand if you are the first person to have all your numbers called out, you win the game.
2. exclamation
You can say 'bingo!' when something pleasant happens, especially in a surprising, unexpected, or sudden way.
I was in a market in Tangier and bingo! I found this.
bingo in British English
(ˈbɪŋɡəʊ)
nounWord forms: plural-gos
1.
a gambling game, usually played with several people, in which numbers selected at random are called out and the players cover the numbers on their individual cards. The first to cover a given arrangement of numbers is the winner
Compare lotto
2.
(in Scrabble) the playing of all seven of a player's tiles in a single turn
sentence substitute
3.
a cry by the winner of a game of bingo
4.
an expression of surprise at a sudden occurrence or the successful completion of something
and bingo! the lights went out
verbWord forms: -gos, -going or -goed
5. (intransitive)
(in Scrabble) to play all seven of one's tiles in a single turn
Word origin
C19: perhaps from bing, imitative of a bell ringing to mark the win
bingo in American English
(ˈbɪŋgoʊ)
US
noun
1.
a gambling game played with cards having rows of numbered squares, no two cards being numbered alike: players use markers to cover the numbered squares on their cards corresponding to numbers drawn by lot, and the player who first gets a row covered is the winner
interjection
2.
in the game of bingo, used to signify that one has just finished covering a row of squares