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fruit machine

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fruit machine
Noun
Brit & NZ a coin-operated gambling machine that pays out money when a particular combination of diagrams, usually of fruit, appear on a screen
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Noun1.fruit machine - 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
one-armed bandit, slot - a slot machine that is used for gambling; "they spend hours and hours just playing the slots"
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
Translations
fruit machine n (BRIT) → máquina tragaperras
fruit machine fruit n (Brit) → machine f à sous
fruit machine fruit (Brit) n → Spielautomat m
fruit machine n (BRIT) → macchina f mangiasoldi inv


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