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单词 pakapoo
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pakapoon.

Brit. /pakəˈpuː/, /ˈpakəpuː/, U.S. /ˌpækəˈpu/, Australian English /pækəˈpuː/, New Zealand English /pɛkəˈpuː/
Forms: 1800s– pak-ah-pu, 1800s– pakapu, 1900s– pac-a-poo, 1900s– pack-a-poo, 1900s– packapoo, 1900s– pai kop piu, 1900s– p'ai kop piu, 1900s– pak-a-peu, 1900s– pak-a-poo, 1900s– pakapoo, 1900s– pak-a-pu, 1900s– peak-a-peow, 1900s– puckapoo, 1900s– puck-a-pu, 1900s– puk a pu, 1900s– puka pu.
Origin: A borrowing from Chinese. Etymon: Chinese baahk gáap piu.
Etymology: < Chinese (Cantonese)baahk gáap piu white pigeon ticket (Meyer-Wempe transcription paâk káap p'iu) < baahk white + gáap pigeon, dove + p'iu ticket, perhaps originally referring to a Cantonese competition in which a white pigeon was trained to choose the winning ticket.
Chiefly Australian and New Zealand.
A Chinese form of lottery involving the marking of a number of characters on a ticket.Recorded earliest in pakapoo ticket n. at Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > other games of chance > [noun]
even or odd1538
love1585
Jack-in-the-box?1593
under-hat1629
pluck-penny1643
morra1659
catch-dolt1674
shuffle-cap1712
fair chance1723
E O1751
teetotum1753
rondo1821
cut-throat1823
hop-my-fool1824
odds and evens1841
spin-'em-round1851
halfpenny under the hat1853
racehorses1853
fan-tan1878
tan1883
pakapoo1886
legality1888
petits chevaux1891
pai gow1906
boule1911
put and take1921
1886 F. J. Steel Miscarriage of Justice 13 There is no pretence to any sort of trade except in pak-ah-pu tickets.
1913 Chambers'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).
1923 Daily 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.
1958 F. B. Vickers Mirage (ed. 2) 78 The silk turns out to be an old pair of Mrs Gordon's knickers, which the old man has won from Tugara when playing pac-a-poo.
1970 S. M. Lyman Asian in West vi. 58 In basements below the street level or in rooms high above the colorfully-lit avenue, old men gather round small tables to gamble at f'an t'an, p'ai kop piu, or other games of chance.
2003 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 26 Mar. 5 Pakapoo..was similar to modern-day Lotto or Keno, but with better odds. The game, along with other Chinese games of chance, was illegal between 1881 and 1977.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
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1903 Truth (Sydney) 22 Feb. 6/2 A gambling den at 48 Campbell-street, Haymarket—one of the most important pak-a-pu banks of the celestial sub-city.
1936 ‘R. Hyde’ Passport to Hell i. 10 Chinese grocery-shops, masonic clubs, and pakapoo saloons.
2001 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 6 Sept. 4 More on the pak-a-pu lottery—Gordon Hewitt reports that in Innisfail the Pak-a-pu man went door-to-door selling tickets.
C2.
pakapoo ticket n. (a) a ticket used in a pakapoo game; (b) Australian colloquial (in similative and figurative uses as) the type of something difficult to decipher, densely inscribed, complex, confusing, or untidy.
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1886*Pak-ah-pu ticket [see main sense].
1911 L. Stone Jonah ix. 92 He had come down early to mark a pak-ah-pu ticket at the Chinaman's in Hay Street.
1951 E. 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.
1975 Bulletin (Sydney) 29 Nov. 17/1 Senate elections, because of the complexity of the system..are more in the nature of a pack-a-poo ticket.
2001 Dominion (Wellington) (Nexis) 22 Sept. 3 Players marked characters on a pakapoo ticket with a brush dipped in ink, and a copy was made and kept by the agent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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