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one-armed, a.|ˈwʌnɑːmd|
[one numeral a. 34 d.]
Having one arm; also transf.; spec. one-armed bandit (orig. U.S.) = fruit machine (see fruit n. 9).
1809Thespiad 10 Every subsequent comedy would have contained a weather-beaten, one-armed sailor. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 73 He cowed the one-armed Admiral. 1886F. T. Elworthy West Somerset Word-Bk. 536 One-arm'd landlord, cant name for a pump. 1890Spectator 27 Sept. 413 This writer..has great power, but of a one-armed sort. 1914W. B. Yeats Responsibilities 26 A one-legged, one-armed, one-eyed man. 1938Time 28 Feb. 33/1 Last fortnight, with her ax she demolished two more—as she called them—‘one-armed bandits’. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. iv. 88 Ned Kelly is displacing one-armed bandit for a poker machine. 1948Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch 8 Apr. 5/1 He was convicted of a charge of having two slot machines, familiarly known as ‘one-armed bandits’, in his possession. 1959Times 12 Feb. 10/7 To-day the Senators were ringed with juke-boxes, pinball tables, ‘one-armed bandits’, and other coin-operated devices. 1971P. Toynbee Working Life iv. 60 You slip your card into the slot and pull down the lever which punches the time on it. ‘Talk about a one-armed bandit’, someone jokes... ‘Trouble is, it's never been known to pay out.’ 1972D. Francis Smokescreen vi. 70 There's more cars parked along the streets down there than one-armed bandits in Nevada. |