pakapoo

pakapoo
/pak'euh pooh"/, n.
a Chinese lottery in which the tickets are sheets of paper bearing densely written characters.
Also, pakapu.
[1910-15; < dial. Chin, equiv. to Chin báige piào lit., white-pigeon ticket; cf. Guangdong dial. baahk-gáap pigeon, piu ticket]

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