pachinkon.

Brit.

/pəˈtʃɪŋkəʊ/, U.S.

/pəˈtʃɪŋkoʊ/

Forms: 1900s– pachinco, 1900s– pachinko, 1900s– patchinko.

Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese pachinko.

Etymology: < Japanese pachinko (1951 or earlier as the name of this type of pinball; currency in this sense in Japanese is implied also by quots. 1949 and probably also 1948; 1921 or earlier in sense ‘child's catapult, slingshot’) < pachin, imitative of the sound of something flicked or triggered off + -ko, diminutive suffix (compare ko child, -ko, suffix forming many female personal names).Compare earlier Japanese gachanko , name of the first upright pinball game (c1926; < gachan , imitative of a metallic clang (compare ka-ching n.) + -ko, diminutive suffix), which facilitated the eventual adoption of pachinko.

A form of pinball originating in Japan and played on an upright machine.Pachinko evolved out of Corinthian bagatelle (see Corinthian adj. 5), a horizontal type of pinball imported to Japan from Chicago c1924 and renamed Korinto gēmu. The machines were made vertical c1926 to save space, and were first called gachanko. According to different accounts, pachinko itself was first played in Japan from 1948 or 1949.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > bagatelle and similar games > [noun]

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pachinko1949

1948 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 25 July b12/5 For 10 yen (about 5 U. S. cents), they get 11 metal ball bearings and a game of Yakyu Pachinko (marble shooting baseball).]

1949 Life of Soldier & Airman (U.S. Army) 37 29/1 Pachinko is a wild Japanese variation of pinball.

1954 J. L. Morse Unicorn Bk. 1953 262/1 An interesting development in Japan was the popular craze for pachinko, a kind of poor-man's pinball game.

1964 Listener 8 Oct. 540/2 Pachinko is played with handfuls of ball-bearings. You drop them, one by one, into the machine, flick them round, and if they land in a winning cup, the machine coughs back fifteen ball-bearings which are bought in the first place, twenty-five at a time, for fifty yen (one shilling). If you amass enough of them, they can be exchanged for prizes.

2004 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 14 Jan. It [sc. Tokyo] is buzzing, screeching and ding-ding-dinging, constantly, as if a tribute to its addictive national game of pachinko.

Compounds

General attributive, as pachinko hall, pachinko machine, pachinko parlour, etc.

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1951 Japan Christian Year Bk. i. 28 1951 saw a continuation of the pachinko (a sort of pinball machine that is in a vertical position) craze.

1952 Times 8 July 7/7 The latest craze in Tokyo is the pachinko or pinball parlour... These pachinko parlours are to be found everywhere.

1953 Encounter Nov. 7/2 In Tokyo there are 5,000 registered pachinko halls.

1966 P. Buck People of Japan 215 Some [parlors] are several stories high, with hundreds of vertical pachinko machines, row on row.

1967 W. Swaan Japanese Lantern 27 In the pachinko saloon the blazing lights..induce a state bordering on trance.

1971 Guardian 11 June 11/6 Pachinco machines, dozens of them side by side in rows..are all identical. A trigger shoots off a ball which may find its way into a slot and produce a jackpot of balls.

1990 E. Van Lustbader White Ninja i. 100 Tomi..ducked into a brilliantly lighted pachinko parlor.

2015 L. Steels Talking Heads Experim. iv. 89 Any visitor to Japan sooner or later comes across a Pachinko hall where eager players sit before a machine in which a metal ball, inserted at the top, falls through a series of gates until it falls in a winning or a losing bin.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pachinko
释义	pachinkon. Brit. /pəˈtʃɪŋkəʊ/, U.S. /pəˈtʃɪŋkoʊ/ Forms: 1900s– pachinco, 1900s– pachinko, 1900s– patchinko. Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese pachinko. Etymology: < Japanese pachinko (1951 or earlier as the name of this type of pinball; currency in this sense in Japanese is implied also by quots. 1949 and probably also 1948; 1921 or earlier in sense ‘child's catapult, slingshot’) < pachin, imitative of the sound of something flicked or triggered off + -ko, diminutive suffix (compare ko child, -ko, suffix forming many female personal names).Compare earlier Japanese gachanko , name of the first upright pinball game (c1926; < gachan , imitative of a metallic clang (compare ka-ching n.) + -ko, diminutive suffix), which facilitated the eventual adoption of pachinko. A form of pinball originating in Japan and played on an upright machine.Pachinko evolved out of Corinthian bagatelle (see Corinthian adj. 5), a horizontal type of pinball imported to Japan from Chicago c1924 and renamed Korinto gēmu. The machines were made vertical c1926 to save space, and were first called gachanko. According to different accounts, pachinko itself was first played in Japan from 1948 or 1949. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > bagatelle and similar games > [noun] troll-madam1572 nine holes1573 pigeonholes1608 small trunksc1610 hole1611 trucks1671 roly-poly1707 Mississippi1728 bumble-puppy1794 bubble the justice1801 bagatelle1819 cockamaroo1850 pigs in clover1889 pinball1911 pinball game1911 Skee-Ball1923 Corinthian bagatelle1933 pachinko1949 1948 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 25 July b12/5 For 10 yen (about 5 U. S. cents), they get 11 metal ball bearings and a game of Yakyu Pachinko (marble shooting baseball).] 1949 Life of Soldier & Airman (U.S. Army) 37 29/1 Pachinko is a wild Japanese variation of pinball. 1954 J. L. Morse Unicorn Bk. 1953 262/1 An interesting development in Japan was the popular craze for pachinko, a kind of poor-man's pinball game. 1964 Listener 8 Oct. 540/2 Pachinko is played with handfuls of ball-bearings. You drop them, one by one, into the machine, flick them round, and if they land in a winning cup, the machine coughs back fifteen ball-bearings which are bought in the first place, twenty-five at a time, for fifty yen (one shilling). If you amass enough of them, they can be exchanged for prizes. 2004 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 14 Jan. It [sc. Tokyo] is buzzing, screeching and ding-ding-dinging, constantly, as if a tribute to its addictive national game of pachinko. Compounds General attributive, as pachinko hall, pachinko machine, pachinko parlour, etc. ΚΠ 1951 Japan Christian Year Bk. i. 28 1951 saw a continuation of the pachinko (a sort of pinball machine that is in a vertical position) craze. 1952 Times 8 July 7/7 The latest craze in Tokyo is the pachinko or pinball parlour... These pachinko parlours are to be found everywhere. 1953 Encounter Nov. 7/2 In Tokyo there are 5,000 registered pachinko halls. 1966 P. Buck People of Japan 215 Some [parlors] are several stories high, with hundreds of vertical pachinko machines, row on row. 1967 W. Swaan Japanese Lantern 27 In the pachinko saloon the blazing lights..induce a state bordering on trance. 1971 Guardian 11 June 11/6 Pachinco machines, dozens of them side by side in rows..are all identical. A trigger shoots off a ball which may find its way into a slot and produce a jackpot of balls. 1990 E. Van Lustbader White Ninja i. 100 Tomi..ducked into a brilliantly lighted pachinko parlor. 2015 L. Steels Talking Heads Experim. iv. 89 Any visitor to Japan sooner or later comes across a Pachinko hall where eager players sit before a machine in which a metal ball, inserted at the top, falls through a series of gates until it falls in a winning or a losing bin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1949
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