Sweepstakes

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sweepstakes \Sweep"stakes`\, n.
     1. A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sweepstakes
       n : a lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by
           the participants [syn: {sweepstake}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "sweepstakes":
     Academy Award, Derby, Kentucky Derby, Nobel Prize, Oscar,
     Preakness Stakes, award, betting system, bingo, booby prize,
     card games, chase, chuck and toss, chuck farthing, chuck-a-luck,
     class lottery, consolation prize, crack-loo, crap game,
     crap shooting, craps, daily double, double-or-nothing,
     draft lottery, drawing, exacta, fan-tan, first prize, flat race,
     grab bag, handicap, handicap race, harness race, hazard,
     horse race, horse racing, hurdle race, interest lottery, jackpot,
     keno, lottery, lotto, martingale, number lottery, numbers pool,
     pari-mutuel, perfecta, pinball, pitch and toss, plate race, policy,
     prize, purse race, quarter-horse race, quinella, raffle, reward,
     rouge et noir, roulette, second prize, shell game, stake,
     stake race, steeplechase, superfecta, sweep, sweeps, sweepstake,
     the numbers, the numbers game, tombola, tontine,
     trente-et-quarante, trotting race