slot machine

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Noun

slot machine (plural slot machines)

  1. Any machine operated by placing a coin or token into a slot, especially
    1. (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.
    2. 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, […]

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Unadapted borrowing from English slot machine.

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slot machine f (plural slot machines)

  1. (Portugal) slot machine
    Synonym: caça-níquel (Brazil)
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