peaka peow

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A gambling game, originally Chinese, in which bets are laid on secretly selected numbers. Caribbean,uncountable
    — 'And curiously enough,' M's voice was softer and quieter, 'a twenty-dollar bill which one of these casual negroes had paid for a gold coin and whose number he had noted for Peaka Peow, the Numbers game, was paid out by one of Mr. Big's lieutenants.'

词源

From a source cognate with pakapoo (from Cantonese 白鴿票 /白鸽票 (baak6 gaap3-2 biu1)).
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