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/pəˈt͡ʃɪŋkəʊ/ · noun
A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan..
Two teen-age boys, after selling their personal belongings to play pachinko, sold their blood to "gamble.”
The rain kept up, falling along Harajuku, beading on her plastic jacket, the children of Tokyo trooping past the famous boutiques in white loafers and clingwrap capes, until she'd stood with him in the midnight clatter of a pachinko parlor and held his hand like a child.
Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.
She drizzled them in slowly and listened to the susurration of the bolts pachinkoing their way through the refrigerators and fax machines, on their way to some illegal dump.
Use pachinko when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pachinko means A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Two teen-age boys, after selling their personal belongings to play pachinko, sold their blood to "gamble.”
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