pokie
English
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Homophone: pokey
Etymology 1
From poker machine + -ie (“diminutive suffix”); believed to have been coined in New South Wales in the 1970s.
Noun
pokie (plural pokies)
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A poker machine.
- 2004, Bernard Salt, The Big Shift, page 77,
- For several decades until the early 1990s, Echuca–Moama existed in the consciousness of Melburnians as the destination for pokie bus-trips. All of this changed when the Kennett Government legalised pokies in Victoria in 1993.
- 2006, author not known, Sydney City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 148,
- In reality, the cheap beer and walls of pokies attract anyone and everyone.
- 2008, Catherine Deveny, Say When, page 171,
- None of these people around me punching the pokies has walked in here today expecting to be a loser.
- 2004, Bernard Salt, The Big Shift, page 77,
Synonyms
See also
slot machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Shortening of genus name Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.
Noun
pokie (plural pokies)
- (informal) Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template..
Further reading
- Poecilotheria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Poecilotheria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Poecilotheria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
