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Definition of pakapoo ticket in English: pakapoo ticket(also pakapu ticket) noun Australian, NZ 1A ticket in the Chinese gambling game pakapoo. he had gone down Haining Street to check his pakapoo ticket and play a game of dominoes Example sentencesExamples - A serious middle-aged man in shirt sleeves, wearing his hat and gold-rimmed spectacles, sat at one table with brush and ink for the marking of pakapoo tickets.
- Many people recall stories about Chinese laundrymen selling pakapoo tickets
- Cathedral Street had an impassive old Chinese character selling pakapoo tickets next door to the fruit shop.
- It is possible to win £60 by marking your ten characters correctly on a green sixpenny pakapoo ticket.
- He was not a drinker and, apart from marking an occasional pakapoo ticket, not a gambler.
- 1.1 Something that is illegible or difficult to decipher.
some doctors' prescriptions are like a pakapoo ticket Example sentencesExamples - He lets out a chuckle about "bards who haven't learned to spell and send in copy on pakapoo tickets".
- They invariably return to Australia with their luggage plastered with so many labels that it looks like a Chinese pakapu ticket.
- The Opposition has presented this pakapu ticket, and masqueraded it as foreign policy.
- As the bookings for Christmas rolled in, the accommodation chart on which we recorded them came to look like the original pakapoo ticket.
- It has reduced the fabric of a vital piece of legislation to the proverbial pakapoo ticket.
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