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Sweepstake   Listen
noun
Sweepstake  n.  
1.
A winning of all the stakes or prizes.
2.
A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep. (Obs.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Sweepstake" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bill?' 'Are you sure you're all right, Bill?' 'Are you still all right, Bill?' and so on. At last Bill, getting fed up with this unusual solicitude, yelled back: 'What's all the anxiety abaht, eh?' And Fortnum put his head round the traverse and explained. 'We're getting up a little sweepstake in our bay,' he said, 'abaht the first casuality, and I've drawn you, ...
— All In It K(1) Carries On - A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand • John Hay Beith (AKA: Ian Hay)


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