E.O.

noun

An old dice game resembling roulette.

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Meanings

nounE.O. (uncountable)

alternative E O

  1. historicaluncountableAn old dice game resembling roulette.

    We made most at the E. O. tables,—not those played with a ball, they weren’t in vogue then, but throwing dice for prizes marked on a table. […] Our E. O. table was in a tilted cart.

    1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861

Origin

Short for "even and odd".

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