bolita

noun

bo·​li·​ta

bəˈlētə,

bōˈ-

variants or less commonly bolito

-ēt(ˌ)ō

plural -s

1

: a game of chance having the character of a lottery in which a bag of small numbered balls is tossed about until only one remains or until one is grasped at random, the ball so selected being considered as bearing the winning number

2

: a numbers game in which one attempts to guess a variously determined 2-digit number

Word History

Etymology

American Spanish (Cuba) bolita, from Spanish, little ball, diminutive of bola ball

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