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Definition 2024

slot_machine

slot machine

English

Noun

slot machine ‎(plural slot machines)

Any machine operated by placing a coin or token into a slot.
A gambling machine so operated; a fruit machine or one-armed bandit.
A vending machine.

Quotations

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.
1998 Eva Hemmungs Wirtén - Global Infatuation: explorations in transnational publishing and texts
The paperback selling slot-machine was only one resourceful trade invention, . . .

Synonyms

fruit machine (UK)
one-armed bandit
poker machine (US, Australia, New Zealand)
pokie machine (Australia, New Zealand)

Translations

any coin-operated machine

Chinese:
Mandarin: 角子機, 角子机 ‎(jiǎozijī), 老虎機 (zh), 老虎机 (zh) ‎(lǎohǔjī)
Dutch: automaat (nl) m
Finnish: kolikkkoautomaatti
French: machine à sous (fr) f
German: Münzautomat m
Greek: κουλοχέρης (el) m ‎(koulochéris)

Hungarian: játékgép
Irish: meaisín sliotáin m
Japanese: スロットマシン ‎(surottomashin)
Korean: 슬롯 머신 ‎(seullot meosin)
Russian: слот-маши́на (ru) f ‎(slot-mašína), автома́т (ru) m ‎(avtomát)

gambling machine

Chinese:

Cantonese: 老虎機, 老虎机 ‎(lou⁵ fu² gei¹)

Mandarin: 遊戲機 (zh), 游戏机 (zh) ‎(yóuxìjī), 老虎機 (zh), 老虎机 (zh) ‎(lǎohǔjī)
Dutch: speelautomaat (nl) m, fruitautomaat m, gokautomaat (nl) m, gokkast (nl) c
Finnish: peliautomaatti
French: machine à sous (fr) f

German: Spielautomat (de) m
Hungarian: félkarú rabló
Japanese: スロットマシン ‎(surottomashin), ゲーム機 ‎(gēmu-ki)
Russian: игрово́й автома́т m ‎(igrovój avtomát), игра́льный автома́т m ‎(igrálʹnyj avtomát)
Swedish: enarmad bandit (sv) c

vending machine — see vending machine

poker: three sevens

Finnish: seiskakolmoset pl

Hungarian: hetes drill

Derived terms

penny-in-the-slot machine

References

Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523