| 释义 |
pakapoo, pakapu|ˈpækəpuː, pækəˈpuː|
Also pak-a-peu, puka pu, etc.
[Chinese.]
A Chinese gambling game resembling lottery with sheets of paper so marked as to be indecipherable except to an initiate. Phr. like a pakapoo ticket, untidy, disordered (Austral.).
1911L. Stone Jonah ix. 92 He had come down early to mark a pak-ah-pu ticket at the Chinaman's in Hay Street. 1913Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 155/1 All kinds of games of chance—‘two up’, ‘pak-a-pu’ (the latter a form of lottery imported by the Chinese). 1923Daily Mail 12 Feb. 7 Five Chinese pleaded guilty at Liverpool Assizes to charges of running a gaming house... For the defence it was argued that Pak-a-Peu (or Puck-a-pu) was a game of skill. 1927Daily Express 21 Sept. 7/2 A Japanese ship's captain..appealed against a conviction..for employing two other Japanese to sell chances in an unlawful lottery known as ‘Puka pu’. ‘It is a favourite game with the Japanese and Chinese and others living in Limehouse,’ explained Mr. Horace Fenton. 1932H. Simpson Boomerang x. 275 Brought in evidence two flimsy pieces of printed paper, one a pakapu bet, the other a five-pound-note. 1936‘R. Hyde’ Passport to Hell i. 10 Chinese grocery-shops, masonic clubs, and pakapoo saloons. 1951E. Lambert Twenty Thousand Thieves (1952) ix. 89 Henry opened Dooley's pay-book, the pages of which showed liberal sprinklings of the red ink with which fines and convictions were entered. ‘What a pay-book!’ he sighed. Dooley grinned. ‘Like a pak-a-poo ticket,’ he agreed. 1959Baker Drum 133 Marked like a pakapoo ticket, confusedly or incomprehensibly marked. 1960N.Z. Listener 22 July 9/2 Some of the last of the old Chinese dwellings of the opium-smoking and pakapoo-playing generation are being pulled down in Haining Street in Wellington. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1212/1 Look like a pakapu ticket, to be completely indecipherable: Australian (esp. Sydney) coll.: since ca. 1940. ‘Pakapu is a Chinese gambling game, not unlike housie. A pakapu ticket, when filled, is covered with strange markings’. 1964A. Wykes Gambling 330 The only illegal gambling games in New South Wales are fan-tan, another Chinese game called pak-a-p, and two-up. |