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bingo card en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (literally) A card used in playing the game of bingo.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) A list of expected or stereotypical events, outcomes, or clichés considered likely to occur in a specific situation, especially in reference to an event considered unlikely.
    • Boland, Cummins, and Lyon all with centuries in the same innings. I wonder how many people had that on their bingo card.
    • I'm recently out of an almost 6-year relationship that left me feeling emotions that I didn't put on my 2022 bingo card. 2023 January 6, Korie Houston, “New Year, Same You”, in LGBTQ San Diego County News, volume 4, number 7, page 10:

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