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poker machine en · NOUN
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(US) An electronic machine used to play games of chance for money, especially ▸ An electronic machine used to play poker.
Even better, there are some video poker machines — admittedly, they′re very hard to find — that actually offer favorable odds if you play perfectly.
2007, Mary Herczog, Las Vegas for Dummies, page 177:He didn′t always play the same poker machine, but he never went to the tables where he would have to interact with a live dealer. In fact, he usually stuck to the row of poker machines closer to the back door.
2007, Max Allan Collins, Double Dealer: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Mortal Wounds, page 119:Even there, you see poker machines placed in the bar counter to greet you.
2010, Marina Milicevic, Vegas Dealer, page 19:
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(Australia, New-Zealand) An electronic machine used to play games of chance for money, especially ▸ Synonym of slot machine.
In New South Wales poker machines were legalized in clubs in 1956.
1973, Francis Keble Crowley, Modern Australia in Documents: 1939-1970, page 351:Lotteries, horse-racing and poker machines loom large in the life experience of many Australians.
1974, Donald Ernest Edgar, Social Change in Australia: Readings in Sociology, page 23:I was also shocked that the poker machines (which we call pokies back home) were on full display, as in Australia, they legally have to be in a separate room.
2023 July 21, Billie Schwab Dunn, “I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy...”, in Daily Star:At that time Ainsworth had been manufacturing and selling poker machines in NSW for nineteen years.
1991, Queensland Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Papers, volume 4, page 303:He approached people who were not in the criminal world, including his poker machine attendant, to acquire firearms or arrange hitmen for him.
2008, Malcolm Brown, editor, Cold Blooded Murder: True Crimes That Rocked Australia, unnumbered page:
Forms
Deriveds
pokie machine · pokie
Synonyms
slot machine