fruit machine
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English
Etymology
- (slot machine): From originating with machines with fruit pictures
- (criminology): From being a machine used to identify fruits (“homosexuals”)
- (food): From being a machine containing fruits
Pronunciation
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Noun
fruit machine (plural fruit machines)
- (British, gambling) A slot machine, especially one having spinning wheels marked with pictures of fruit.
- (Canada, criminology, slang) A device developed to identify homosexual people by measuring their physical responses to different kinds of pornography.
- (food) A vending machine that dispenses fruit. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
See also
fruit machine (homosexuality test) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
