fan tan

1. 1.

   a Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4)

   Synonymsfantan

   Broadergame of chance

Questions about fan tan

What does fan tan mean?

fan tan means "a Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4)".

What is another word for fan tan?

Close synonyms include fantan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fan tan a common word?

fan tan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.