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gobble hole

gobble hole noun: a hole in a pinball table that ends play of the current ball if the ball falls down it.

Noun

gobble hole (plural gobble holes)

  1. (pinball) A hole in a pinball table that ends play of the current ball if the ball falls down it.
    • Pinball is a metaphor for life, pitting man's skill, nerve, persistence, and luck against the perverse machinery of human existence. […] But it is replete with perils, too: culs-de-sac, traps, gutters, and gobble holes down which the ball may disappear forever.1987, Gerald Henry Levin, Prose models
    • Happy Days had nine gobble holes, but no outlanes or gap between the flippers. Each gobble hole would light a square of the backglass's tic-tac-toe board […]1997, Gary Flower, Bill Kurtz, Pinball: the lure of the silver ball

Forms of gobble hole

pluralgobble holes

Questions about gobble hole

What does gobble hole mean?
Gobble hole means a hole in a pinball table that ends play of the current ball if the ball falls down it.
What part of speech is gobble hole?
Gobble hole is a noun.
What is the plural of gobble hole?
The plural of gobble hole is gobble holes.

Words near gobble hole in the dictionary

  1. gobbings
  2. gobbins
  3. gobbinsite
  4. gobble
  5. gobble down
  6. gobble hole
  7. gobble holes
  8. gobble off
  9. gobble up
  10. gobble-pipe
  11. gobble-pipes

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