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raffle

About 0.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
    He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.
  2. noun A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
  3. noun The system by which cases are assigned to judges in multi-sala courts.
  4. verb To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing.
    They raffled off four gift baskets.
  5. verb To participate in a raffle.
    to raffle for a watch
  6. noun Refuse; rubbish.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Rudyard Kipling to this entry?)

Similar words

raffle off sweepstakes lottery jackpot bazaar reissue circulation draw lot drawing

Often followed by

tickets ticket for of and was off to at

Word family

raffled raffles raffling

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