Usually means: Traditional Chinese gambling game, counters.
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  1. fan-tan: Merriam-Webster
  2. fan-tan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fan-tan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fan-tan, fan-tan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fan-tan: Wordnik
  6. fan-tan: Wiktionary
  7. fan-tan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. fan-tan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. fan-tan: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Fan-tan, fan-tan: Dictionary.com
  11. Fan-Tan, Fan-tan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. fan-tan: FreeDictionary.org
  13. fan-tan: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fan-tan: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (fan-tan)

noun:  A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.
noun:  A card game in which the cards are played in sequences upon the table, and the winner is the first player to have no cards left.

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