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Calcutta sweeps; Calcutta sweep
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a type of sweepstake in which contestants’ names are auctioned off AUSTRALIA- A ration of thirty squares was distributed by the storeman every Saturday night, and for purposes of betting, games of chance, “Calcutta sweeps’’ on the monthly wind-velocity and general barter, chocolate held the premier place. — Douglas Mawson, The Home of the Blizzard, 1914
- The Bellbird Gold Cup was run in two divisions and it was decided to run two Calcutta Sweeps on them. — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 115, 1982
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