Pachinko
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pəˈt͡ʃɪŋkəʊ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pachinko is a noun meaning A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.
Meaning
A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) To tumble down through a series of obstacles.
Example Sentences
Two teen-age boys, after selling their personal belongings to play pachinko, sold their blood to "gamble.”
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.
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.
Word Forms
- pachinkos
- pachinco
- pachinkoing
- pachinkoed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pinball, duckpins, pitch-pot, pachisi, pinochle, tenpins.
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