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A Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board
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pachinko
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
pachinko \pachinko\ n. A popular Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB play ▪ Technically, playing pachinko for cash prizes is illegal. ▪ It turned out she took his money only to play pachinko . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Along with prostitution, property and drugs, pachinko is their biggest ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1953, from Japanese, "pinball machine," also "slingshot, handgun," from pachin , of echoic origin, + diminutive suffix -ko .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
is a type of mechanical game originating in Japan and is used as both a form of recreational arcade game and much more frequently as a gambling device, filling a Japanese gambling niche comparable to that of the slot machine in Western gaming. A pachinko ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board
Usage examples of pachinko.
The rain kept up, falling along Harajuku, beading on her plastic jacket, the children of Tokyo trooping past the famous boutiques in white loafers and clingwrap capes, until she'd stood with him in the midnight clatter of a pachinko parlor and held his hand like a child.
A sort of vertical pinball game called pachinko involved dozens of tiny steel balls rolling around and around and bouncing into numbered and lettered slots.
Hence the fanaticisms and intoxications--religious, political, and sexual, the Nazis, the Klan, Hell's Angels, the Circus Maximus, the dreary fascination of the TV screen, witch-burnings, Mickey Spillane and James Bond, pachinko parlors, alcoholic stupors, revivals, tabloid newspapers, and juvenile gangs--all of which, as things stand, are the necessary safety-valves and palliatives for human beings whose very existence is defined in self-contradictory and self-defeating terms.