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raffle

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Synonyms: ruffle, riffle, baffle, maffle, gaffle, waffle, faffle, yaffle, rafale, raffie, haffle

Antonyms: ruffle, riffle, baffle, maffle, gaffle, waffle, faffle, yaffle, rafale, raffie, haffle

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Noun

  1. A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
    • He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.
  2. A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
  3. The system by which cases are assigned to judges in multi-sala courts.

Verb

  1. To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing.
    • They raffled off four gift baskets.
  2. To participate in a raffle.
    • to raffle for a watch

Noun

  1. Refuse; rubbish.
    • (Can we find and add a quotation of Rudyard Kipling to this entry?)

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