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ball machines

n. (plural of ball machine English)

Usage examples of "ball machines".

We had pushed our luck far enough with that place and the world was full of colorful gum-ball machines.

She watched as the lottery drawing began and the ball machines fired up.

That huge room was bare now, but in season it would be filled with a variety of pin-ball machines, shuffleboard, bowling, shooting galleries, electronic games, and carnival booths where you could get your fortune told or where a boy could spend ten dollars in quarters to win a three-dollar toy animal for his best girl.

Chick is an expert mechanic on pin-ball machines and other gambling devices.

For a year or so she went steady with a boy studying to be a law student, a fairy-like creature who never did appeal much to me, although he liked to play pin ball machines -- to learn the mathematical odds, as he explained it.

Gompton wouldn't let us use, and some real old pin-ball machines that she wouldn't even let us stand near, and great ice cream.