slot machines
slot machines is the plural of slot machine.
Meaning of slot machine
Noun
slot machine (plural slot machines)
- 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.
- As an illustration of a general technique for calculating odds, suppose you are playing a 25-cent slot machine.2005, Benjamin Crowell, The Modern Revolution in Physics
- Synonyms:
- one-armed bandit, slot, fruit machine, poker machine, pokie, pokie machine
- Synonym of vending machine.
- The paperback selling slot-machine was only one resourceful trade invention, […]1998, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Global Infatuation: explorations in transnational publishing and texts
- Synonyms:
- vending machine
- A gas stove that requires the insertion of a coin to operate.
- “[…]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.[…]”
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Mr. Sleuth spoke pettishly, with far more heat than he was wont to...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.[…]”
Questions about slot machines
- What is slot machines the plural of?
- Slot machines is the plural of slot machine.
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