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lotto

/lot-oh/US // ˈlɒt oʊ //UK // (ˈlɒtəʊ) //

乐透,彩票,大乐透,乐透彩

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a game of chance in which a leader draws numbered disks at random from a stock and the players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards, the winner being the first to cover a complete row.
    • : a lottery, as one operated by a state government, in which players choose numbers that are matched against those of the official drawing, the winning numbers typically paying large cash prizes.

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Examples

  • Lotto is propped up by the notion that “Hey, you never know” though of course you do know—you know that you will not win.

  • The one-in-a-million chance is exactly that—a small but real chance, as any lotto winner will tell you.

  • Applying for a permit is kind of like playing the Lotto, but with worse odds.

  • Whenever I say, ‘Oh, can I have my lotto number, the newspaper?’

  • This could mean lotto winners, but also the recently divorced or widowed or recipients of an inheritance.

  • I played lotto with Mendele and let him beat me; I found him when he was lost, and I helped him play tricks on our elders.

  • Lotto led a wandering life, which took him much away from Venice; hence his pictures are comparatively little known.

  • This cannot be the case, for Lotto seems to have had no close domestic ties.

  • One of our friends, who knew most of them, told us that their only employment at home was to play lotto from morning till night.

  • Why, I am anything but a spring chicken, yet Lotto was an old game when I was young.