slot machine

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

slot machine (plural slot machines)

1. Any machine operated by placing money or a token into a slot, especially:
   1. (chiefly US, UK) A machine so operated to play games of chance for money, especially those with a lever and three or more rollers used to achieve combinations.

      Synonyms: one-armed bandit, slot (especially in plural), fruit machine (especially UK), poker machine, pokie, pokie machine (Australia, New Zealand)

      • 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.

   2. Synonym of vending machine.
      • 1998, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Global Infatuation: explorations in transnational publishing and texts:

        The paperback selling slot-machine was only one resourceful trade invention, […]

   3. (dated) A gas stove that requires the insertion of a coin to operate.
      • 1913, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger:

        “ […] But I should be much obliged if you would see that the gas people come to-morrow and put my stove in order. It might be done while I am out. That the shilling-in-the-slot machine should go wrong is very unpleasant. […] ”
        […]
        Mr. Sleuth spoke pettishly, with far more heat than he was wont to speak, but Mrs. Bunting sympathised with him in this matter. She had always suspected that those slot machines were as dishonest as if they were human.

Hyponyms

• (gambline machine): poker machine (US, used to play poker), video lottery terminal, VLT (North America, an electronic slot machine)

Derived terms

• penny-in-the-slot machine
• slot

Translations

any coin-operated machine

• Armenian: սլոտ-մեքենա (slot-mekʻena)
• Catalan: màquina escurabutxaques f
• Chinese:

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

• Dutch: automaat (nl) m
• Finnish: kolikkoautomaatti (fi), kolikkopeli (fi)
• French: machine à sous (fr) f
• German: Münzautomat (de) m
• Greek: κουλοχέρης (el) m (koulochéris)
• Hungarian: játékgép (hu)
• Irish: meaisín sliotáin m
• Japanese: スロットマシン (surotto mashin)
• Korean: 슬롯머신 (seullonmeosin)
• Macedonian: слот-ма́шина f (slot-mášina), автома́т m (avtomát)
• Polish: automat do gier m
• Russian: слот-маши́на (ru) f (slot-mašína), автома́т (ru) m (avtomát)

gambling machine

• Armenian: սլոտ-մեքենա (slot-mekʻena)
• Bulgarian: монетен автомат m (moneten avtomat)
• Catalan: màquina escurabutxaques f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 老虎機 / 老虎机 (lou⁵ fu² gei¹)

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

• Dutch: speelautomaat (nl) m, fruitautomaat (nl) m, gokautomaat (nl) m, gokkast (nl) c, gokmachine, jackpot (nl)
• Finnish: peliautomaatti (fi), hedelmäpeli (fi), kolikkopeli (fi), pelilaite
• French: machine à sous (fr) f
• German: Spielautomat (de) m
• Hungarian: félkarú rabló (hu)
• Italian: macchinetta mangiasoldi f
• Japanese: スロットマシン (surotto mashin)
• Korean: 슬롯머신 (seullonmeosin)
• Macedonian: ко́цкарски автома́т m (kóckarski avtomát)
• Māori: whakatūaho
• Polish: jednoręki bandyta (pl) m
• Portuguese: slot machine (Portugal), caça-níquel (Brazil), caça-níqueis (pt) (Brazil)
• Russian: игрово́й автома́т m (igrovój avtomát), игра́льный автома́т m (igrálʹnyj avtomát)
• Spanish: tragamonedas (es) m, máquina tragamonedas f (Latin America), tragaperras (es) f (Spain)
• Swedish: enarmad bandit (sv) c
• Turkish: kumar makinesi

Anagrams

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English slot machine.

Pronunciation

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈslɔt mɐˈʃin/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈslɔt mɐˈʃin/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈslɔt mɐˈt͡ʃin/

Noun

slot machine f (plural slot machines)

1. (Portugal) slot machine

   Synonym: caça-níquel (Brazil)

Further reading

• “slot machine”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026