fruit machine

noun

1. a gambling machine that pays out when certain combinations of diagrams, usually of fruit, are displayed

Example Sentences

It might have begun with Youtube user Quincey11, external and his mates in front of the fruit machine and bar bunting of their local.

From BBC

The unit looks a bit like a tall fruit machine, only with an animated female barmaid - Cecilia - appearing on a large, upright video screen.

From BBC

The cover of the most recent issue of the Spanish satirical magazine El Jueves showed a sweaty and goggle-eyed Pedro Sánchez tapping away furiously at a fruit machine and shouting, “Again! Again!”

From The Guardian

Unai Emery’s Arsenal, meanwhile, are something of a footballing fruit machine at the moment, at times paying out gloriously, at times so frustrating you just want to pour your pint over them and find something else to do.

From The Guardian

Every gambler trusts in a few abstract symbols – the dots on a dice, numerals, suits, red or black, the graphemes on a fruit machine – to tell them who they are.

From The Guardian

Related Words

• vending machine