pinball
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- noun
- /ˈpɪnˌbɔl/
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pinball
- My friends and I spent the afternoon playing pinball at the arcade.
- a pinball machine
You weren't playing pinball as you, you were playing pinball as the ball.
- You weren't playing pinball as you, you were playing pinball as the ball.
- And in the movie Tommy, the rival of Tommy, the reigning pinball champ, was Elton John.
- Before that, my entire experience with pinball was the significant percentage of my childhood taken up by this.
- And we would go in there and play the Gilligan's Island pinball machine and baseball cards were a huge craze.
- In case you didn't know what that was, that was the Who's John Entwistle playing Pinball Wizard.
- DMT was like somebody took a pinball machine and buried you in it.
Examples
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Whole days were devoted to playing pinball and eating pizza, which Mr. Touhy would order.
Fiction book (1991) -
We each wanted one too, and he took us to a pinball machine.
Fiction book (1994) -
You should get a pinball machine that works.
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I wear them for reading, playing pinball, things like that.
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Maybe you should go play some pinball.
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No age limit at Fat Bernie's Pinball Palace tonight.
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In addition to selling records, he also serviced over a hundred jukeboxes and pinball games.
Academic text (1999) -
On weekends, he took Milton into Phoenix to play pool and pinball, sometimes to the shopping mall for Cokes.
Fiction book (1990) -
Pinball is one of humanity's best pastimes of yesteryear, and Galactic Pinball perfected the well-known formula.
Blog text (23) -
He loves to challenge his friends to a game of pinball whenever they visit.
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A coin-operated game with a tilted table where flippers keep a metal ball moving to score points
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Etymology
The word pinball is made from the simple English words pin and ball. It comes from the early game where a ball bounces among many small 'pins' or posts, so the name tells you exactly what the game is about.