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noun

Sweepstakes n.

A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.

sing. or pl. The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed.

A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.

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Etymology of 'Sweepstakes'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sweepstakes" Quotes from Famous Books

... had recently become a bosom friend of the accomplished Hycy Burke, who, it was whispered, began to look upon Miss Clinton with a partial eye. Hycy had got acquainted with him at the Herringstown races, where he, Hycy, rode and won a considerable sweepstakes; and as both young gentlemen were pretty much of the same habits of life, a very warm intimacy had, for some time past, subsisted between them. Clinton, to whom M'Mahon was known, addressed him in ...

— The Emigrants Of Ahadarra - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton

Words linked to "Sweepstakes" : lottery, plural, drawing