fruit machine

English

Etymology

From fruit +‎ machine.

• (slot machine): From originating with machines with fruit pictures
• (criminology): From being a machine used to identify fruits (“homosexuals”)
• (food): From being a machine containing fruits

Pronunciation

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Noun

fruit machine (plural fruit machines)

1. (British, gambling) A slot machine, especially one having spinning wheels marked with pictures of fruit.
2. (Canada, criminology, slang) A device developed to identify homosexual people by measuring their physical responses to different kinds of pornography.
3. (food) A vending machine that dispenses fruit. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

See also

• fruit machine (homosexuality test) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia