lotologist

English

WOTD – 22 December 2019

Etymology

Possibly lotology +‎ -ist, or lot(tery) +‎ -ologist.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləˈtɒləd͡ʒɪst/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ləˈtɑləd͡ʒɪst/
• Hyphenation: lot‧o‧log‧ist

Noun

lotologist (plural lotologists)

1. A person who collects lottery tickets as a hobby.
   • 1998 August 23, Richard Stewart, “Hobby doesn’t start from scratch: Unused lottery tickets worth more than their prizes to collectors”, in The Houston Chronicle‎^[1], Houston, Tex.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 May 2012, section A, page 1:

     [Alfred] Ricks is a lotologist, one of a growing number of people who collect, study and admire lottery tickets – not for the prizes they promise, but for their art and value as collectors' items.

   • 1998 October 22, “Resisting the Urge to Scratch”, in The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, Calif.: The McClatchy Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Star Trek scratch-off tickets are probably the most valuable of all the California games because they are prized by thousands of Trekkies as well as "lotologists."

   • 2011 July 29, The Denver Post‎^[2], Denver, Colo.: Digital First Media, published 3 May 2016 (updated), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 March 2019:

     Held this year in northeast Philadelphia, the gathering is an opportunity to meet other self-described "lotologists," trade tickets and take a gander at the never-ending multitude of collectible material.

   • 2014, Eric LeMay, In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: Emergency Press, →ISBN:

     Although most lotologists collect scratch tickets that have already been scratched, approximately 15% of lotologists collect unscratched tickets.

Hypernyms

• hobbyist

Translations

person who collects lottery tickets

Further reading

• lottery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia