keno

IPA: kˈinoʊ

A gambling game, a variety of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.
A region of Yukon, Canada, the region around Keno Hill and Keno City.
Ellipsis of Keno City. [A hamlet and former city in Yukon, Canada]
Ellipsis of Keno Hill. [A hill in Yukon, Canada, outside the Keno City area.]

Examples of "keno" in Sentences

She isn't exactly clear yet what "keno" is, but she says she has sworn off taking advice from pious looking traveling men.
The little woman saw that she had got her foot into something, and she blushed and backed out, and asked the traveling man what "keno" meant.
They took turns wandering inside the cramped shop to play a quiet hour of keno, so that they came to be seen as regulars around the Brockton neighborhood.
I mean, it's only October, said Craig Brodur, who was playing keno with a friend at Northampton Convenience in western Massachusetts, which had received about 4 inches of snow by Saturday night.
AUGUSTA, Maine - A legislative committee is recommending that Maine allow the bingolike video game called keno and join the multistate Mega Millions lottery as a way to generate additional revenue during the recession.
Until the late 1980s, slot machines served the same purpose as a well-positioned bench or chair serves for men in the context of a department or specialty store—except this time around, the slot machines were places in which to keep female gamblers occupied while the men were out on the tables losing money on blackjack, craps, keno, baccarat, or what have you.