housie

发音

AU /ˈhaʊzi/

别名

housie-housie

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A gambling game similar to bingo.

    澳大利亚 新西兰 不可数

    2010, Michael Caulfield (editor), The Voices of War: Australians Tell Their Stories from World War I to the Present, unumbered page, He was very officious—universally hated—and bingo, then called housie, was illegal, because we had a housie game and we used to play this on deck and we were all up on deck in our shorts and we′d give warning if he was coming.

  2. 2.

    One who is not homeless.

    俚语 不可数

词源

From house + -ie.

来源:wiktionary