slot machine

English

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.

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, . . .

Synonyms

• fruit machine (UK)
• one-armed bandit
• poker machine (US, Australia, New Zealand)
• pokie machine (Australia, New Zealand)

Translations

any coin-operated machine

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 角子機, 角子机 (jiǎozijī), 老虎機 (zh), 老虎机 (zh) (lǎohǔjī)

• Dutch: automaat (nl) m
• Finnish: kolikkkoautomaatti
• French: machine à sous (fr) f
• German: Münzautomat m

• Greek: κουλοχέρης (el) m (koulochéris)
• Hungarian: játékgép
• Irish: meaisín sliotáin m
• Japanese: スロットマシン (surottomashin)
• Korean: 슬롯 머신 (seullot meosin)
• Russian: слот-маши́на (ru) f (slot-mašína), автома́т (ru) m (avtomát)

gambling machine

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 老虎機, 老虎机 (lou⁵ fu² gei¹)

  Mandarin: 遊戲機 (zh), 游戏机 (zh) (yóuxìjī), 老虎機 (zh), 老虎机 (zh) (lǎohǔjī)

• Dutch: speelautomaat (nl) m, fruitautomaat (nl) m, gokautomaat (nl) m, gokkast (nl) c
• Finnish: peliautomaatti
• French: machine à sous (fr) f

• German: Spielautomat (de) m
• Hungarian: félkarú rabló
• Japanese: スロットマシン (surottomashin), ゲーム機 (gēmu-ki)
• Russian: игрово́й автома́т m (igrovój avtomát), игра́льный автома́т m (igrálʹnyj avtomát)
• Swedish: enarmad bandit (sv) c

vending machine — see vending machine

poker: three sevens

• Finnish: seiskakolmoset pl

• Hungarian: hetes drill

Derived terms

• penny-in-the-slot machine

References

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