pachinko
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- noun
- /pəˈtʃɪŋkoʊ/
- And another time, again in Osaka, while we were touring the Great Market, the "Belly of Osaka," Kio Ono took me into a Pachinko parlour.
- pachinko parlor
- pachinko machine
- pachinko ball
Examples
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My brother Tommy supplied us with a vintage pachinko machine, which he played every time he visited.
Fiction book (1996) -
Then he headed back toward Dream Hall, the pachinko parlor he operated.
Fiction book (1996) -
How many, uh, pachinko parlors are there in Tokyo?
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Pachinko parlors paid for this place.
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From the Pachinko parlors came the metal waterfalls of victory.
Fiction book (1990) -
With his pachinko parlors and my fish business... we can round the cash into US dollars... and ship product everywhere almost unnoticed.
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I can hear the ringing! ringing! of what sounds like a noisy pachinko parlor.
Fiction book (1996) -
He wrote me he managed a pachinko parlor in the Asaksa district.
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On the way back, we drove by a pachinko parlor and a concrete-bunkered stretch of shoreline.
Blog text (31) -
In Japan, many people enjoy playing pachinko in arcades during their free time.
Synonyms
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2.1
A game on a tilted board where you shoot a metal ball to hit targets and score points
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pachinko comes from a Japanese sound word: the start pachi means a small 'snap' or 'pat' like the steel balls hitting the board. So a helpful way to remember pachinko is that it is the noisy Japanese arcade game where players try to win small steel balls.