tambiolo means A fish bowl or barrel-shaped container where balls used in a raffle or a lottery are placed. In the case of a raffle, tickets may also be used. Can be made out of wire, glass, clear plastic, etc. Often has a handle, which, when rotated, mixes up the balls or tickets.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, tambiolo ranks #36,606 of 42,747 for Qualifying.
Etymology
Borrowed from Philippine Spanish tambiolo, from tambo + -i- + Italian -olo. See also Spanish tómbola, which is also from Italian tombola. Compare Tagalog tambiyolo.
noun
- A fish bowl or barrel-shaped container where balls used in a raffle or a lottery are placed. In the case of a raffle, tickets may also be used. Can be made out of wire, glass, clear plastic, etc. Often has a handle, which, when rotated, mixes up the balls or tickets.e.g.“The lottery during the time of José Rizal used the traditional manually operated tambiolo where numbers were drawn for the winning combinations.” — 2010 November 30, Perseus Echeminada, “Rizal a lottery winner in 1892”, in The Philippine Star, retrieved 25 Jun 2020:
- A system by which the government gives out assets, such as land, supposedly at random, but which some feel is actually rigged.
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