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Definition 2024
pachinko
pachinko
English
Alternative forms
- pachinco
Noun
pachinko (plural pachinkos)
- A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.
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- 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.
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Derived terms
- pachislo, pachislot, pachisuro
Translations
a game
Verb
pachinko (third-person singular simple present pachinkos, present participle pachinkoing, simple past and past participle pachinkoed)
- To tumble down through a series of obstacles.
- 2016, Alex Livingston, Glitch Rain
- 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.
- 2016, Alex Livingston, Glitch Rain