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

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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