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n. A lottery in which the prize or prizes constitute all the money paid by the participants.

n. A prize draw.

n. A winning of all the stakes or prizes.

n. A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep.

n. A game of cards, in which apparently a player could take all the tricks or win all the stakes.

n. Same as sweepstakes.

By winning and taking all the stakes at once; hence, by wholesale; indiscriminately.

"In that name sweepstake, his companions had come out rather well."

to make sweepstake   

running-mate    nominee-in-waiting    regionals    shocker    first-place