slot machine

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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, […]
    3. (dated) A gas stove that requires the insertion of a coin to operate.
      • 1913, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger:
        “ […] But I should be much obliged if you would see that the gas people come to-morrow and put my stove in order. It might be done while I am out. That the shilling-in-the-slot machine should go wrong is very unpleasant. […] ”
        […]
        Mr. Sleuth spoke pettishly, with far more heat than he was wont to speak, but Mrs. Bunting sympathised with him in this matter. She had always suspected that those slot machines were as dishonest as if they were human.

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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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