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Dictionary: bin·go (bĭng'gō) pronunciation

n., pl., -gos.
A game of chance in which each player has one or more cards printed with differently numbered squares on which to place markers when the respective numbers are drawn and announced by a caller. The first player to mark a complete row of numbers is the winner.

interj.
Used to express the sudden completion of an event, occurrence of an idea, or confirmation of a guess.

[Origin unknown.]

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Game of chance played with cards having a grid of numbered squares corresponding to numbered balls drawn at random. When a number on the card is drawn, the players cover that number (should they have it); the game is won by covering a certain number of squares in a row (vertically, horizontally, or diagonally). Cards are purchased and proceeds are placed into a common "pot"; winning cards are awarded a portion of the pot. Wildly popular in the mid 20th century, bingo has in recent decades suffered a decline in America but has increased in popularity in other parts of the world. The earliest name for bingo — lotto — was recorded in Britain in 1776; the game is sometimes called keno in the U.S.

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For other uses of the term "Bingo", see Bingo (disambiguation).

Bingo is an English language children's song of obscure origin. In most modern forms, the song involves spelling the name of a dog, and with increasing letters replaced with claps on each repetition.

Earlier forms

The earliest known form (recorded in 1888) is as follows:^[1]

A Franklyn's dogge leped over a style,
And hys name was littel Byngo.
B with a Y—Y with an N,
N with a G—G with an O,
They call'd hym littel Byngo!

Thys Franklyn, syrs, he brewed goode ayle,
And he called it Rare good Styngo!
S, T, Y, N, G, O!
He call'd it Rare goode Styngo!

Nowe is notte thys a prettie song?
I thinke it is, bye Jyngo,
J wythe a Y—N, G, O—
I sweare yt is, bye Jyngo!

English folklorist Alice Bertha Gomme recorded eight forms in 1894. Highly-differing versions were recorded in Monton, Shropshire, Liphook and Wakefield, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire and Enborne. ^[2]

References

^ Marchant, W. T. (1888). In praise of ale: or, Songs, ballads, epigrams, & anecdotes relating to beer, malt, and hops; with some curious particulars concerning ale-wives and brewers, drinking-clubs and customs. p. 412.
^ Gomme, Alice Bertha (1894). The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland: With Tunes, Singing-rhymes, and Methods of Playing According to the Variants Extant and Recorded in Different Parts of the Kingdom. 1.

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Translations: Bingo

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - bingo, bankospil
int. - bingo! der var den!

Nederlands (Dutch)
bingo

Français (French)
n. - loto, bingo
int. - Eurêka (excl) (fam)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Bingo, Lotto
int. - plötzlich

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μπίνγκο, τόμπολα
int. - μπίνγκο! τόμπολα! να τα μας!

Italiano (Italian)
tombola

Português (Portuguese)
n. - bingo (m)
int. - bingo!, na mosca!, eureca!

Русский (Russian)
лото

Español (Spanish)
n. - bingo, lotería de cartones
int. - bingo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - bingo
int. - bingo!, fullträff!

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
宾戈游戏, 烈酒, 瞧!嘿!

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 賓果遊戲, 烈酒
int. - 瞧!嘿!

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 빙고
int. - 이기다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ビンゴ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) لعبه تغطيه الأرقام (نداء) بالضبط !, صحيح ! , وجدتها !‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮בינגו (משחק)‬
int. - ‮קריאת הזוכה במשחק בינגו‬

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