| 单词 | pachinko hall |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspachinko hall 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. < as lemmas |
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