bingo card

noun

variants or less commonly Bingo card

plural bingo cards also Bingo cards

1

: a card that is used in the game of bingo and that has numbered squares which are covered as corresponding numbered balls are drawn at random until one of the players wins by covering five such squares in a row

2

slang : a list of possible, expected, or likely scenarios

—usually used in the phrase on one's bingo card

I'm pretty sure nobody had "global pandemic" on their bingo cards back in 2016 …

—Mollie Taylor

As always I am writing this whilst re-reading my predictions from the previous year. I was partially right about continued struggles around talent and supply, but I didn't have major data breaches on my bingo card.

—Jasmin Bedir

Who had "Bulls winning the East" on their preseason Bingo card? Not I.

—Cole Huff

Examples of bingo card in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Update your 2025 bingo cards to include a potential Jeff Bezos collab with archrival Elon Musk at DOGE. —Brooke Seipel, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024

But the long montage of football set to Chicago blues music was checked off the ol’ bingo card. —Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 13 Aug. 2024

Their bingo cards have already begun to fill up in the coming years, with Elordi slated to star in Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights and Zendaya returning for Dune: Messiah. —Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024

Next, Biggs has ticked off another box on her entertainment industry bingo card: acting debut! —Skyler Caruso, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1923, in the meaning defined at sense 1