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Bank Night

[ bangk nahyt ]

noun

Informal.
  1. (in the 1930s) an evening when prizes were awarded by lottery to members of the audience at a movie theater as part of a promotion to encourage theater patronage.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Bank Night1

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40
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Example Sentences

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Spareribs’ big sister won fifty dollars at a movie bank night.

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The slot she was dropping her love letters into was an old bank night depository.

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A nervous tic excites me and if with all these other things he wore green suits — bank night!”

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He admits that the independents had a share in building up Bank Night but asserts: "We were getting such rotten pictures that we had to do something to get people into the houses."

His great contribution to campaign entertainment was a political version of cinema's Bank Night.

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