Definition: lotto

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

lotto
     n : a game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and
         players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards
         [syn: bingo, beano, keno]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Lotto \Lot"to\, n. [F. loto or It. lotto, prop., a lot; of
   German origin. See Lot.]
   A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed
   numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered
   balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player
   holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the
   wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has
   been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called
   keno. [Often written loto.]