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Original entry ↗Used by players of bingo to claim a win. · Used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task. · Used to enthusiastically confirm or validate another speaker's point.
Just sufficient to return to base (or, alternatively, to divert to an alternative airfield). (also written Bingo or BINGO)
To play the game of bingo. · To give the winning cry of "bingo!" in a game. · To play all of one's seven tiles in one move in the game of Scrabble, earning a score bonus. · To return to base.
Alternative form of bing, suggesting a ringing sound. Attested since 1925.
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