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fifty-fifty draw

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

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But I've enjoyed the Legion. I've had many jobs there. Ran the bingo for years. Ran the fifty-fifty-draw ah for years. I'm a life member now. (laughs) Don't do much around the Legion.
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Speaker: Well, keeping track, making sure that everybody's on the bus, that's about it. Yeah, and- then you have to entertain them, we've got bingos, and fifty-fifty draws, and- yeah. Interviewer: Oh, tell me about those. What's a fifty-fifty draw? Speaker: Well we have one fifty-fifty is ah, fift-- f-- f-- half of the money I pick up goes to the legion and another goes to the person. And then we have a draw for the bus driver.