peaka peow
(Caribbean) A gambling game, originally Chinese, in which bets are laid on secretly selected numbers.
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(Caribbean) A gambling game, originally Chinese, in which bets are laid on secretly selected numbers.
'And curiously enough,' M's voice was softer and quieter, 'a twenty-dollar bill which one of these casual negroes had paid for a gold coin and whose number he had noted for Peaka Peow, the Numbers game, was paid out by one of Mr. Big's l…
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