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one-armed bandit n

(originally US, gambling) A gaming machine having a long arm-like handle at one side that a player pulls down to make reels spin; the player wins money or tokens when certain combinations of symbols line up on these reels. The American engineer Charles Fey, who invented the slot machine that made automatic payouts, died on this day in 1944.

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