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单词 pakapoo ticket
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Definition of pakapoo ticket in English:

pakapoo ticket

(also pakapu ticket)
noun
Australian, NZ
  • 1A ticket in the Chinese gambling game pakapoo.

    he had gone down Haining Street to check his pakapoo ticket and play a game of dominoes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A serious middle-aged man in shirt sleeves, wearing his hat and gold-rimmed spectacles, sat at one table with brush and ink for the marking of pakapoo tickets.
    • Many people recall stories about Chinese laundrymen selling pakapoo tickets
    • Cathedral Street had an impassive old Chinese character selling pakapoo tickets next door to the fruit shop.
    • It is possible to win £60 by marking your ten characters correctly on a green sixpenny pakapoo ticket.
    • He was not a drinker and, apart from marking an occasional pakapoo ticket, not a gambler.
    1. 1.1 Something that is illegible or difficult to decipher.
      some doctors' prescriptions are like a pakapoo ticket
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He lets out a chuckle about "bards who haven't learned to spell and send in copy on pakapoo tickets".
      • They invariably return to Australia with their luggage plastered with so many labels that it looks like a Chinese pakapu ticket.
      • The Opposition has presented this pakapu ticket, and masqueraded it as foreign policy.
      • As the bookings for Christmas rolled in, the accommodation chart on which we recorded them came to look like the original pakapoo ticket.
      • It has reduced the fabric of a vital piece of legislation to the proverbial pakapoo ticket.
 
 
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