bingo vs rhubarb

bingo

noun
  • A win in such a game. 

  • A similar game or amusement in which participants tick off themed words, phrases or pictures as these are called out, or as they are mentioned, for example during a speech or performance 

  • A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid. 

  • A play where all seven of a player's letter tiles are played, awarding a score bonus. 

adj
  • Just sufficient to return to base (or, alternatively, to divert to an alternative airfield). (also written Bingo or BINGO) 

intj
  • Used by players of bingo to claim a win. 

  • Used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task. 

  • Used to declare "You've just made my point!" or "My point exactly!" 

verb
  • To play the game of bingo. 

  • To play all of one's seven tiles in one move in the game of Scrabble, earning a score bonus. 

  • To give the winning cry of "bingo!" in a game. 

  • To return to base. 

rhubarb

noun
  • An excited, angry exchange of words, especially at a sporting event. 

  • Any plant of the genus Rheum, especially Rheum rhabarbarum, having large leaves and long green or reddish acidic leafstalks that are edible, in particular when cooked (although the leaves are mildly poisonous). 

  • General background noise caused by several simultaneous indecipherable conversations, which is created in films, stage plays, etc., by actors repeating the word rhubarb; hence, such noise in other settings. 

  • A Royal Air Force World War II code name for operations by aircraft (fighters and fighter-bombers) involving low-level flight to seek opportunistic targets. 

  • The leafstalks of common rhubarb or garden rhubarb (usually known as Rheum × hybridum), which are long, fleshy, often pale red, and with a tart taste, used as a food ingredient; they are frequently stewed with sugar and made into jam or used in crumbles, pies, etc. 

  • Nonsense; false utterance. 

  • A brawl. 

  • A ditch alongside a road or highway. 

  • The dried rhizome and roots of Rheum palmatum (Chinese rhubarb) or Rheum officinale (Tibetan rhubarb), from China, used as a laxative and purgative. 

verb
  • Of fighter aircraft: to fire at a target opportunistically. 

  • To articulate indistinctly or mumble (words or phrases); to say inconsequential or vague things because one does not know what to say, or to stall for time. 

  • Of an actor in a film, stage play, etc.: to repeat the word rhubarb to create the sound of indistinct conversation; hence, to converse indistinctly, to mumble. 

adj
  • Of the colour of rhubarb: either brownish-yellow (the colour of rhubarb rhizomes and roots used for medicinal purposes), or pale red (often the colour of the leafstalks of common rhubarb). 

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