the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. a game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the correponding numbers on their cards.
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n. a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards
Word Usage
"Originally called beano, the game was first introduced in the United States by Edwin Lowe, who had seen the game played during a traveling carnival in 1929."