slot machine

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slot machine (plural slot machines)

  1. Any machine operated by placing a coin or token into a slot.
  2. (gambling, US) A gambling machine so operated; a fruit machine or one-armed bandit.
    • 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.
  3. A 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, []

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Unadapted borrowing from English slot machine.

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slot machine f (plural slot machines)

  1. (Portugal) slot machine
    Synonym: caça-níquel (Brazil)