Definitions for lotto

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lotto lot·to

Spelling: [lot-oh]

IPA: /ˈlɒt oʊ/

Lotto is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in lotto (loott).

Definitions for lotto

noun

1. a game of chance in which a leader draws numbered disks at random from a stock and the players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards, the winner being the first to cover a complete row.
2. a lottery, as one operated by a state government, in which players choose numbers that are matched against those of the official drawing, the winning numbers typically paying large cash prizes.

Origin of lotto

1770-80; Italian Germanic; see lot

Examples for lotto

Lipinski, Wieniawski, and lotto were all educated in the Paris school.

This is a game similar to the "lotto" we used to play as children.

In my young days a game of lotto was introduced in the clubs.

It is painted in his gay tones, imitating Basaiti and lotto, and brings in the partridge of which he made a sort of sign manual.

The one-in-a-million chance is exactly that—a small but real chance, as any lotto winner will tell you.

lotto is propped up by the notion that “Hey, you never know” though of course you do know—you know that you will not win.

Whenever I say, ‘Oh, can I have my lotto number, the newspaper?’

Applying for a permit is kind of like playing the lotto, but with worse odds.

In the end he begins to attitudinise and to display those artificial graces which were presently accentuated by lotto.

Why, I am anything but a spring chicken, yet lotto was an old game when I was young.