bingo

Alternative form of bing, suggesting a ringing sound. Attested since 1925.

• Bingo

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪŋ.ɡoʊ/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ

bingo (countable and uncountable, plural bingos)

1. (uncountable) A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.
2. (uncountable) A similar game or amusement in which participants tick off themed words, phrases or pictures as these are called out, or as they are mentioned, for example during a speech or performance:

   animal bingo (animal pictures), ABBA bingo (titles or lyrics of ABBA songs), buzzword bingo

3. (countable) A win in such a game.

   There were two bingos in the last game, so the players split the prize money.

4. (countable, Scrabble, US) A play where all seven of a player's letter tiles are played, awarding a score bonus.
5. Great, sudden, typically hard-to-predict success; the jackpot.
   • 1986 April 19, Loie Hayes, Donna Deitch, “Leapin' Lesbians!”, in Gay Community News, page 8:

     An explosion of gay male movies has hit the U.S. in the past few months. Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Parting Glances and My Beautiful Laundrette, among others, have not only demonstrateed that the coming out story can be surpassed, they've also shown the movie industry that substantive gay portrayals can mean box office bingo.

• (game of chance): housey-housey, lotto

• → Polish: bingo
• → Chinese: 賓果 / 宾果 (bīnguǒ)

bingo

1. Used by players of bingo to claim a win.
2. (informal) Used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task.
   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 31:

     ‘Some big, hard-boiled egg meets up with a pretty face, and bingo! He cracks up and melts.’

   • 2009 February 28, Megan Ogilvie, “Flex your plan for healthier eating”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     Just have to pick the bfast, lunch and dinner I feel most like eating today and – bingo!

   • 2011 February 25, Alan Schoolcraft, Brent Simons, 7:35 from the start, in Simon J. Smith, director, Megamind: The Button of Doom (DVD/Blu-ray), Paramount Pictures:

     Megamind: Boingo!
     Minion: I think you mean "bingo", sir.
     Megamind: That's what I said. Boingo!

3. (informal) Used to enthusiastically confirm or validate another speaker's point.

• (used in bingo to claim a win): house!
• (when finding something): aha!, eureka!, got it!, that's it!, yes!

bingo (not comparable)

1. (US, aviation slang, chiefly military, primarily of fuel) Just sufficient to return to base (or, alternatively, to divert to an alternative airfield). (also written Bingo or BINGO)
   • 1993, Red River Valley Fighter Pilots, page 40:

     Well, the old pucker factor went up about 75 notches at that point cause that length of time would put my wingman below Bingo fuel, plus the thought of sitting in an orbit several miles West of the Yen Bai […]

   • 2012, Larry R Gibson, Recollections of a Marine Attack Pilot, page 54:

     The first pilot to get down to this bingo fuel state would call, “Banjo 4, bingo fuel,” or whatever.

bingo (third-person singular simple present bingos, present participle bingoing, simple past and past participle bingoed)

1. (intransitive) To play the game of bingo.
2. (intransitive) To give the winning cry of "bingo!" in a game.
3. (intransitive) To play all of one's seven tiles in one move in the game of Scrabble, earning a score bonus.
   • 2009, Joe Edley, John Williams, Everything Scrabble: Third Edition, page 333:

     With IN on the board, he bingoed with OPERATING for 74 points, while Ann added the CO in front of it for 30 points.

4. (intransitive, US, aviation slang, chiefly military) To return to base.

Perhaps related to stingo.

bingo (uncountable)

1. (slang, obsolete) Brandy.

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

• Gobin, bigon, bog in, boing

From English bingo.

bingo

1. (Cantonese) bingo (the game of chance)

Borrowed from English bingo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪŋ.ɡoː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bin‧go

bingo m (plural bingo's)

1. bingo (a game of chance)
2. bingo (a win in that game of chance)

bingo

1. bingo; expression to claim a win in bingo.
2. bingo; expression to indicate that a hit has been landed or that one has an idea.

From English bingo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbinɡo/
• Rhymes: -inɡo
• Hyphenation: bin‧go

bingo (uncountable, accusative bingon)

From English bingo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiŋːo/, [ˈbiŋːo̞]
• Rhymes: -iŋːo
• Syllabification^(key): bin‧go
• Hyphenation^(key): bin‧go

bingo

1. bingo

bingo

1. bingo

• “bingo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /biŋ.ɡo/

• Audio:

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bingo m (plural bingos)

1. bingo

bingo

1. bingo (all senses)

bingo

1. bingo

Unadapted borrowing from English bingo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbin.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -inɡo
• Hyphenation: bìn‧go

bingo m (invariable)

1. bingo (game)

bingo

1. bingo!

Related to faingoka, compare with Malay bengkok (“bent”).

bingo

1. crooked, bent

• bingo in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

From English bingo.

bingo m (definite singular bingoen, indefinite plural bingoer, definite plural bingoene)

1. bingo

bingo

1. bingo!

• “bingo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from English bingo.

• IPA^(key): /bɪŋu/

bingo m (definite singular bingoen, indefinite plural bingoar, definite plural bingoane)

1. bingo

• bingoblokk
• radiobingo

bingo

1. bingo!

• “bingo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English bingo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiŋ.ɡɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iŋɡɔ
• Syllabification: bin‧go

bingo n (indeclinable)

1. bingo (game of chance)

   bingo fantowe ― raffle bingo

   gra bingo ― game of bingo

   salon bingo ― bingo hall

   gra w bingo ― a round of bingo

   grać w bingo ― to play bingo

2. bingo (win)

   mieć bingo ― to have a bingo

   trafić bingo ― to hit a bingo

Usually in the singular.

or

Indeclinable.

bingo

1. bingo! (to claim a win in bingo)
2. bingo! (used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task)

• bingo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bingo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English bingo.

• Rhymes: -ĩɡu
• Hyphenation: bin‧go

bingo m (plural bingos)

1. (uncountable) bingo (game of chance)

bingo!

1. bingo (all senses)
   • 2011 February 25, 7:55 from the start, in Pavlos Euthymiou, transl., Megamente: O Botão da Perdição [Megamind: The Button of Doom] (DVD/Blu-ray), Rio de Janeiro: Double Sound:

     Megamente (Cláudio Galvan): Boingo!
     Criado (Mckeidy Lisita): O certo é dizer "bingo", senhor.
     Megamente (Cláudio Galvan): Foi o que eu disse. Boingo!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Borrowed from English bingo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbinɡo/ [ˈbĩŋ.ɡo]
• Rhymes: -inɡo
• Syllabification: bin‧go

bingo m (plural bingos)

1. bingo (game)

• “bingo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

bingo c

1. bingo (game of chance)
2. a bingo (win in such a game)

bingo

1. bingo (when claiming a win in bingo)
2. bingo (you got it!)
3. bingo (success!)

• bingo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bingo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)