slot machine
English
Noun
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
- (gambline machine): poker machine (US, used to play poker), video lottery terminal, VLT (North America, an electronic slot machine)
Derived terms
- penny-in-the-slot machine
- slot
Translations
any coin-operated machine
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gambling machine
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Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English slot machine.
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