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pakapoo ticket(also pakapu ticket) noun Australian / NZ1A ticket in the Chinese gambling game pakapoo: he had gone down Haining Street to check his pakapoo ticket and play a game of dominoes...- It is possible to win £60 by marking your ten characters correctly on a green sixpenny pakapoo ticket.
- He was not a drinker and, apart from marking an occasional pakapoo ticket, not a gambler.
- A serious middle-aged man in shirt sleeves, wearing his hat and gold-rimmed spectacles, sat at one table with brush and ink for the marking of pakapoo tickets.
1.1Something that is illegible or difficult to decipher: some doctors' prescriptions are like a pakapoo ticket...- As the bookings for Christmas rolled in, the accommodation chart on which we recorded them came to look like the original pakapoo ticket.
- It has reduced the fabric of a vital piece of legislation to the proverbial pakapoo ticket.
- He lets out a chuckle about "bards who haven't learned to spell and send in copy on pakapoo tickets".
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