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quarter-sucker

quarter-sucker noun: a coin-operated arcade game.

Noun

quarter-sucker (plural quarter-suckers)

  1. (slang) A coin-operated arcade game.
    • He is a hired gun, a freelance designer/programmer of quarter-suckers.1983, Timothy Skelly, Shoot the robot, then shoot mom
    • Yet the early 80s was a magical - and expensive - time for fans of this new breed of interactive entertainment, with hordes of quarter-suckers based on the "blast the space ship" theme.Computer Gaming World (volumes 181-185)
    Synonyms:
    quarter-muncher

Synonyms of quarter-sucker

Forms of quarter-sucker

pluralquarter-suckers

Origin of quarter-sucker

So called because they encourage the player to keep inserting coins (such as quarters) to continue play.

Questions about quarter-sucker

What does quarter-sucker mean?
Quarter-sucker means a coin-operated arcade game.
What part of speech is quarter-sucker?
Quarter-sucker is a noun.
What is the plural of quarter-sucker?
The plural of quarter-sucker is quarter-suckers.

Words near quarter-sucker in the dictionary

  1. quarter-sections
  2. quarter-staff
  3. quarter-staffs
  4. quarter-stave
  5. quarter-staves
  6. quarter-sucker
  7. quarter-suckers
  8. quarter-time
  9. quarter-times
  10. quarter-tone
  11. quarter-tones

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