Dictionary Entry
raffle
raffle is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as verb, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 6 senses
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- 1verb
A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.
- 2verb
A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.
- 3intransitive verb
To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.
- 4transitive verb
To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.
- 5noun
a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money
- 6verb
dispose of in a lottery
"We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas"
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