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.
2. A gambling machine so operated; a fruit machine or one-armed bandit.
3. A vending machine.
4. (poker slang) three of a kind sevens

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, . . .

Derived terms

• penny-in-the-slot machine

Translations

any coin-operated machine

Finnish: kolikkkoautomaatti (fi) German: Münzautomat (de) m.

Hungarian: játékgép (hu)

gambling machine

Finnish: peliautomaatti (fi) French: machine à sous (fr) f.

German: Spielautomat (de) m. Hungarian: félkarú rabló (hu)

vending machine

Finnish: myyntiautomaatti (fi) French: distributeur (fr) m.

Hungarian: automata (hu)

poker: three sevens

Finnish: seiskakolmoset (fi) pl.

Hungarian: hetes drill (hu)

References

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