fruit machine

fruit ma·chine

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Definitions of fruit machine words

noun fruit machine gambling: slot machine 1
countable noun fruit machine A fruit machine is a machine used for gambling. You put money into it and if a particular combination of symbols, especially fruit, appears, you win money. 0
noun fruit machine a gambling machine that pays out when certain combinations of diagrams, usually of fruit, are displayed 0
noun fruit machine slot machine (sense b) 0

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 97% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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slot — a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.
slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
vending machine — a coin-operated machine for selling small articles, beverages, etc.
one-armed bandit — slot machine (def 1).
coin machine — slot machine (def 2).

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