- fruit machine
- noun Brit. a coin-operated gambling machine that generates random combinations of symbols (typically representing fruit), of which certain combinations win money for the player.
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fruit machine — noun a coin operated gambling machine that produces random combinations of symbols (usually pictures of different fruits) on rotating dials; certain combinations win money for the player • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United… … Useful english dictionary
fruit machine — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms fruit machine : singular fruit machine plural fruit machines British a machine that you put coins into and win money from when three pictures of the same object appear … English dictionary
fruit machine — a mechanical gambling device The symbols on the rotating discs in the early versions are fruits: An army surplus dealer, a scrap metal merchant, a fruit machine operator or a property man. (S. Green, 1979) The alternative name, one… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
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