exclamation

• Used in baccarat, chemin de fer, and similar games to express a player's willingness to meet the banker's whole stake single-handed.

  ‘I nevertheless called banco and got the second-best hand in chemin-de-fer, an eight.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘People with white ducks and beautiful yachts, Errol Flynn walking about, Ari yelling banco in the casino: this was heaven on earth, and I swore to myself right then and there that I would return.’