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Jingo vs Bingo - What's the difference?

jingo | bingo |

As nouns the difference between jingo and bingo

is that jingo is one who supports policy favouring war while bingo is a game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.

As an interjection bingo is

Used by players of bingo to claim a win.

As an adjective bingo is

just sufficient to return to base (or, alternatively, to divert to an alternative airfield). also written Bingo or BINGO.

jingo

English

Noun

(es)
  • One who supports policy favouring war.
  • * 1897 June 19, (editor), ''Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz ,
    • The fact is that Mr. Roosevelt has always with perfect frankness confessed himself to be what is currently called a Jingo .
  • * 1908 , ,
    • He is the jingo of the universe; he will say, "My cosmos, right or wrong."
  • * 1995 , Bradford Perkins, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913 ,
    • "We are all jingoes' now," the New York Sun wrote immediately after the 1898 war, "and the head ' jingo is the Hon. William McKinley."

    Derived terms

    * jingoism

    References

    * Spare me all the outrage and "pseudo jingo stuff" about Iran's imprisonment of our troops, said Peter Hitchens in The Mail on Sunday. – Iran frees sailors, The Week , 7 April 2007, Issue 608, page 5. ----

    bingo

    English

    (wikipedia bingo)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.
  • (countable) A win in such a game.
    • There were two bingos in the last game, so the players split the prize money.
  • (countable, Scrabble) A play where all seven letter tiles are played.

    • Synonyms

    * (game of chance) housey-housey, lotto

    Derived terms

    * bingo caller * bingo hall * bingo wings * bullshit bingo

    Interjection

  • (informal)
  • (informal) (Used to declare) "You've just made my point!" or "My point exactly!"

    • Synonyms

    * (used in bingo to claim a win) house! * (when finding something) aha!, eureka!, got it!, that's it!, yes!

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Just sufficient to return to base (or, alternatively, to divert to an alternative airfield). (also written Bingo or BINGO)
  • * 1993 , Red River Valley Fighter Pilots , page 40:
    • Well, the old pucker factor went up about 75 notches at that point cause that length of time would put my wingman below Bingo fuel, plus the thought of sitting in an orbit several miles West of the Yen Bai
  • * 2012 , Larry R Gibson, Recollections of a Marine Attack Pilot , page 54:
    • The first pilot to get down to this bingo' fuel state would call, “Banjo 4, ' bingo fuel,” or whatever.

    See also

    * Kelly's eye * man alive * lucky for some * Maggie's den, Major's den, Tony's den * one fat lady * doctor's orders * legs eleven * unlucky for some * on its own * sweet sixteen * key of the door, key to the door * two little ducks * thee and me * dirty Gertie * more than eleven * halfway there * tweak of the thumb * Brighton line * red raw * clickety-click * bang on the drum * trombones * one more time * stop and run * between the sticks * two fat ladies * top of the shop

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