Bingo

Bingo

1. A male given name.
   • 1903, Charles Walcott Russell, “Act I”, in The Prisoner of Andersonville: A Military Drama in Four Acts, New York, N.Y.: Dick & Fitzgerald, , →OCLC, pages 7–8:

     Bingo! Bingo! Where is the rascal, I wonder. ENTER Bingo, r. 2, with glass of cream,

   • 1945, Ernest M. Wampler, “Living in a Cave Home and Moving to Liao”, in China Suffers or My Six Years of Work During the Incident, Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House, →OCLC, part 1 (The Coming of the Japanese Army), page 45:

     Our dog, Bingo, was determined not to be left behind;

   • 1956, Jean Merrill, The Travels of Marco‎, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →LCCN:

     Marco stopped to talk with a boy named Bingo Brown. Bingo was eating frozen peas from a supermarket package.

2. Alternative letter-case form of bingo (“game of chance”).
   • 2002, Rachel Simon, “Into Out There”, in Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, section “March”, page 71:

     We like playing Bingo, which is good because Beth is in special ed classes in school now, and they’re teaching her letters and numbers, and Mommy tries to help her by playing Bingo.

   • 2009, Donnie J. Wilbanks, “Being a Caregiver”, in Applied Psychology in Health Care, Clifton Park, N.Y.: Delmar, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 90:

     Help her talk about the simple things she enjoys in life—her favorite television program, donuts on Friday mornings, playing Bingo with her friends.

   • 2013, Janet Evanovich, chapter 5, in Takedown Twenty (A Stephanie Plum Novel), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 50:

     She was a nice person, but she was blind as a bat. She couldn’t see a Bingo card if it was as big as a barn. Poor Lois Fratelli used to play Bingo there too.

Bingo

1. Alternative letter-case form of bingo.
   • 1968, Ngaio Marsh, “Ramsdyke”, in Clutch of Constables, London: The Companion Book Club, →OCLC, page 125:

     The discovery of this woman’s body suddenly threw a complex of apparently unrelated incidents into an integrated whole. You grind away at routine, you collect a vast amount of data ninety-per-cent of which is useless and then—some thing happens and Bingo—the other ten-per-cent sits up like Jacky and Bob’s your uncle.

   • 1989, Kerry Daly, quoting Andrea, “Anger Among Prospective Adoptive Parents: Structural Determinants and Management Strategies”, in Clinical Sociology Review, volume 7, East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, section “Theories and Methods of Clinical Sociology”, page 84:

     I have this feeling of inadequacy because I can’t have any children. As a little girl, you’re playing with dolls and all this and you’re prepared right from when you are a little one. You’re prepared for this whole thing and then Bingo!—you can’t and you have to start thinking differently.

   • 2015 October 13, Robert Dudley, Marc A. DeSimone, Sr., “Around 3:00 A.M. Mount Weather, VA”, in Last Shepherd: A Novel, Middletown, Del., →ISBN, page 189:

     "Hey Doug, what if you draw a line connecting each location; what does it look like to you?" / Doug mulls over the question for a second, sensing Marcello may be onto something. Then the light bulb goes on. "It looks like a set up for your basic three prong attack, is what it looks like." / "Exactly, Bingo . . . If you were going to hit the U.S. from the South, you would cut off the major transportation arteries and then make your push northward at three points to provide maximum flexible response."

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Bingo n (strong, genitive Bingos or Bingo, no plural)

1. bingo (game)

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