slot machine
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[edit]Noun
[edit]slot machine (plural slot machines)
- Any machine operated by placing a coin or token into a slot, especially
- (chiefly US, UK) A machine so operated to play games of chance for money, especially those with a lever and three or more rollers used to achieve combinations.
- Synonyms: one-armed bandit, slot (especially in plural), fruit machine (especially UK), poker machine, pokie, pokie machine (Australia, New Zealand)
- 2005, Benjamin Crowell, The Modern Revolution in Physics:
- As an illustration of a general technique for calculating odds, suppose you are playing a 25-cent slot machine.
- Synonym of vending machine.
- 1998, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Global Infatuation: explorations in transnational publishing and texts:
- The paperback selling slot-machine was only one resourceful trade invention, […]
- (chiefly US, UK) A machine so operated to play games of chance for money, especially those with a lever and three or more rollers used to achieve combinations.
Hyponyms
[edit]- (gambline machine): poker machine (US, used to play poker), video lottery terminal, VLT (North America, an electronic slot machine)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]any coin-operated machine
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gambling machine
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English slot machine.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]slot machine f (plural slot machines)
- (Portugal) slot machine
- Synonym: caça-níquel (Brazil)
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