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Housie Housie N Bingo Decks Adults Playing I Idea

Word housie-housie
Definition n. Bingo.
Sentence Below decks, the adults were playing housie-housie; I had no idea where the Monkey was.
Source Midnight's Children, p. 360

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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