Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

slot machine

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English

Syllables: slot -ma-chine
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any machine operated by placing money or a token into a slot, especially:

British usage; American usage

noun

Any machine operated by placing money or a token into a slot, especially:

noun

Any machine operated by placing money or a token into a slot, especially:

Dated

Example Sentences

"As an illustration of a general technique for calculating odds, suppose you are playing a 25-cent slot machine."
"The paperback selling slot-machine was only one resourceful trade invention, […]"
"“[…]But I should be much obliged if you would see that the gas people come to-morrow and put my stove in order. It might be done while I am out. That the shilling-in-the-slot machine should go wrong is very unpleasant.[…]” […] Mr. Sleuth spoke pettishly, with far more heat than he was wont to speak, but Mrs. Bunting sympathised with him in this matter. She had always suspected that those slot machines were as dishonest as if they were human."

Usage

British usage
American usage
Dated

Inflected Forms

slot machines (plural)

Derived Forms

slot

Phrases

penny-in-the-slot machine

Synonyms

one-armed bandit slot fruit machine poker machine pokie pokie machine vending machine coin machine

Questions

What does slot machine mean?: Any machine operated by placing money or a token into a slot, especially:

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