Meaning of pokie machine | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of slot machine (“gambling machine”).

Australia, New-Zealand

Examples

“During the contest, participants sit at pokie machines and accurately insert coin after coin into the smallest of holes, while all the time consuming more and more schooners. This grueling sport can go on for many hours, though the winner is always the pokie machine.”

“Australian clubs allow instant membership to anyone, so keen are they to share the diverting pleasures of the pokie machine.”

“In 2005, New Zealanders lost $2.027 billion through all forms of gambling. Roughly half of that, $1.027 billion, was lost on non-casino pokie machines.”

“A casino is one big pokie machine, programmed to pay out less than a dollar in a dollar.”

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