English

Modern pachinko machines

Alternative forms

• pachinco

Noun

pachinko ‎(plural pachinkos)

1. A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.
   • 2012 November 18, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time:

     Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.

Derived terms

• pachislo, pachislot, pachisuro

Translations

Verb

pachinko ‎(third-person singular simple present pachinkos, present participle pachinkoing, simple past and past participle pachinkoed)

1. To tumble down through a series of obstacles.
   • 2016, Alex Livingston, Glitch Rain

     She drizzled them in slowly and listened to the susurration of the bolts pachinkoing their way through the refrigerators and fax machines, on their way to some illegal dump.

See also

• bagatelle
• pinball

Dutch

A pachinko room in Akihabara, Japan.

Etymology

From English pachinko, from Japanese パチンコ ‎(pachinko).

Noun

pachinko m ‎(plural pachinko's, diminutive pachinkootje n)

1. pachinko

Derived terms

• pachinkohal