pakapoo

English

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Etymology

From Cantonese, perhaps 白鴿票／白鸽票 (baak6 gaap3-2 biu1).

Noun

pakapoo (uncountable)

  1. A Chinese lottery game popular in Oceania in the 19th century, involving tickets marked with rows of Chinese characters.
    • 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 63:
      He can feel the cloud coming down: eight hundred owed to Charlie, another hundred to the Chinaman who runs a pakapoo game alongside the apples and bananas.

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