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hand pay

hand pay noun: the situation when a slot attendant or cage gives the player a cash payout, rather than the actual slot machine paying out from the printer with ticket voucher or coin hopper.

Noun

hand pay (plural hand pays)

  1. The situation when a slot attendant or cage gives the player a cash payout, rather than the actual slot machine paying out from the printer with ticket voucher or coin hopper.
    • If you could get 30 or more hands an hour (the low number is due to the frequent hand-pays), the hourly return exceeded $1,000!2003, Bob Dancer, Million Dollar Video Poker, page 231

Forms of hand pay

pluralhand pays

Questions about hand pay

What does hand pay mean?
Hand pay means the situation when a slot attendant or cage gives the player a cash payout, rather than the actual slot machine paying out from the printer with ticket voucher or coin hopper.
What part of speech is hand pay?
Hand pay is a noun.
What is the plural of hand pay?
The plural of hand pay is hand pays.

Words near hand pay in the dictionary

  1. hand over
  2. hand over fist
  3. hand over hand
  4. hand over head
  5. hand paper
  6. hand pay
  7. hand pays
  8. hand percussion
  9. hand picked
  10. hand pie
  11. hand pies

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