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keno

ke·no [ knō ]


noun 
Definition:
 
North America betting game: a game of chance in which players wager on a set of numbers to be drawn at random

[Early 19th century. Alteration of French quine "set of five winning numbers" < Latin quini "five each" < quinque "five"]
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