Meaning of slot machine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any machine operated by placing a coin or token into a slot, especially:
   UK, US
2. A machine so operated to play games of chance for money, especially those with a lever and three or more rollers used to achieve combinations.
   UK, US
3. Synonym of vending machine.
4. A gas stove that requires the insertion of a coin to operate.
   dated

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Examples

“As an illustration of a general technique for calculating odds, suppose⟳ you are playing a 25-cent slot machine.”

“The paperback selling slot-machine was only one resourceful trade⟳ invention, […]”

““[…]But I should be much obliged if you would see⟳ that the gas people come⟳ to-morrow and put⟳ my stove in order⟳. It might be done while I am out. That the shilling-in-the-slot machine should go wrong is very unpleasant.[…]” […] Mr. Sleuth spoke pettishly, with far more heat than he was wont to speak⟳, but Mrs. Bunting sympathised with him in this matter⟳. She had always suspected that those slot machines were as dishonest as if they were human.”

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