pachinko
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese パチンコ (pachinko), from ぱちん (pachin, onomatopoeic sound) + こ (ko, diminutive).
Pronunciation
Noun
pachinko (plural pachinkos)
- A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.
- 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time[1]:
- 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
Translations
game
Verb
pachinko (third-person singular simple present pachinkos, present participle pachinkoing, simple past and past participle pachinkoed)
- (intransitive) 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.
- 2016, Alex Livingston, Glitch Rain
Translations
tumble down
See also
Dutch
Etymology
From English pachinko, from Japanese パチンコ (pachinko).
Noun
pachinko m (plural pachinko's, diminutive pachinkootje n)
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɑtʃiŋko/, [ˈpɑ̝t̪ʃiŋko̞], IPA(key): /ˈpɑtsiŋko/, [ˈpɑ̝ts̠iŋko̞]
- Hyphenation: pa‧chin‧ko
Noun
pachinko
Declension
Inflection of pachinko (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | pachinko | pachinkot | |
genitive | pachinkon | pachinkojen | |
partitive | pachinkoa | pachinkoja | |
illative | pachinkoon | pachinkoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pachinko | pachinkot | |
accusative | nom. | pachinko | pachinkot |
gen. | pachinkon | ||
genitive | pachinkon | pachinkojen | |
partitive | pachinkoa | pachinkoja | |
inessive | pachinkossa | pachinkoissa | |
elative | pachinkosta | pachinkoista | |
illative | pachinkoon | pachinkoihin | |
adessive | pachinkolla | pachinkoilla | |
ablative | pachinkolta | pachinkoilta | |
allative | pachinkolle | pachinkoille | |
essive | pachinkona | pachinkoina | |
translative | pachinkoksi | pachinkoiksi | |
abessive | pachinkotta | pachinkoitta | |
instructive | — | pachinkoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Japanese
Romanization
pachinko
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