A game of chance, in which the appropriation of the stakes is determined by the falling of a ball into one of several niches marked E or O, respectively. Also attrib.
1750. Coventry, Pompey Lit., I. xv. (1752), 125. For the sake of playing at Eo.
1827. Hone, Every-day Bk., II. 112. The profits gained by E O Tables, Rouge et Noir, [etc.].