tombola noun [C] BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN
a game in which numbered tickets are bought from a spinning cylindrical
container and
small prizes are won when the numbers on the tickets are the same as the
numbers on
the prizes
I won a bottle of port on the tombola at the fair.
We're planning to hold a raffle and a tombola at the Christmas party.
( Cambridge International Dictionary of
English )
Greg Clow wrote:
quoted 9 lines At 02:17 PM 29/10/00, Ant wrote:> At 02:17 PM 29/10/00, Ant wrote:
> >Whay! I had a tenner on the next Bola release being called "Tom".
>
> Hmmm. I'm not getting the joke with this one. Bola "Soup" = Bowl of soup,
> but Bola "Tom" = ???
>
> Bola "Hat" would've made more sense. :)
>
>
--
jeff
"10,000 people all screaming the same thing at the same time are wrong, even if
they're right."
dancing/about/architecture "...with wandering steps and slow..." ICQ904008
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