Definition of "bingo"

bingo¹

/ˈbɪŋ.ɡəʊ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural bingos
1. (uncountable) 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.
2. (uncountable) 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:
3. (countable) A win in such a game.
4. (countable, Scrabble, US) A play where all seven of a player's letter tiles are played, awarding a score bonus.
5. Great, sudden, typically hard-to-predict success; the jackpot.
  Quotations
  An explosion of gay male movies has hit the U.S. in the past few months. Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Parting Glances and My Beautiful Laundrette, among others, have not only demonstrateed that the coming out story can be surpassed, they've also shown the movie industry that substantive gay portrayals can mean box office bingo.
  1986 April 19, Loie Hayes, Donna Deitch, “Leapin' Lesbians!”, in Gay Community News, page 8
interjection
1. Used by players of bingo to claim a win.
2. (informal) Used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task.
  Quotations
  ‘Some big, hard-boiled egg meets up with a pretty face, and bingo! He cracks up and melts.’
  1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 31
  Just have to pick the bfast, lunch and dinner I feel most like eating today and – bingo!
  2009 February 28, Megan Ogilvie, “Flex your plan for healthier eating”, in Toronto Star‎
3. (informal) Used to declare "You've just made my point!" or "My point exactly!"
adjective
not comparable
1. (US, aviation slang, chiefly military, primarily of fuel) Just sufficient to return to base (or, alternatively, to divert to an alternative airfield). (also written Bingo or BINGO)
  Quotations
  Well, the old pucker factor went up about 75 notches at that point cause that length of time would put my wingman below Bingo fuel, plus the thought of sitting in an orbit several miles West of the Yen Bai […]
  1993, Red River Valley Fighter Pilots, page 40
  The first pilot to get down to this bingo fuel state would call, “Banjo 4, bingo fuel,” or whatever.
  2012, Larry R Gibson, Recollections of a Marine Attack Pilot, page 54
verb
third-person singular simple present bingos, present participle bingoing, simple past and past participle bingoed
1. (intransitive) To play the game of bingo.
2. (intransitive) To give the winning cry of "bingo!" in a game.
3. (intransitive) To play all of one's seven tiles in one move in the game of Scrabble, earning a score bonus.
  Quotations
  With IN on the board, he bingoed with OPERATING for 74 points, while Ann added the CO in front of it for 30 points.
  2009, Joe Edley, John Williams, Everything Scrabble: Third Edition, page 333
4. (intransitive, US, aviation slang, chiefly military) To return to base.

bingo²

/ˈbɪŋ.ɡəʊ/

noun
uncountable
1. (slang, obsolete) Brandy.