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Definition of Pachinko
1. Noun. A Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board.
Definition of Pachinko
1. Noun. A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pachinko
1. a Japanese pinball game [n -KOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pachinko
Literary usage of Pachinko
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Five Hundred Fun Facts About Japan by DIANE Publishing Company, Dorothy Perkins (1994)
"Many Japanese spend hours relaxing with pachinko. a kind of vertical pinball game
played in noisy, brightly lit pachinko parlors. The player buys a batch of ..."
2. Electricity and Magnetism by Benjamin Crowell (2002)
"Anyway, one of the features that gives our house Character is that it possesses,
built into the wall of the family room, a set of three pachinko machines. ..."
3. Managing Change on the Korean Peninsula by Morton Abramowitz, James T. Laney, Michael J. Green (1998)
"... also suffers from declining revenue as its pachinko parlors and other businesses
close and their main financial institution approaches bankruptcy. ..."
4. Designing Nanostructures at the Interface Between Biomedical and Physical by National Academies (2005)
"... microfluidics array in which posts deflect and slow larger molecules in a sort
of nanoscale pachinko machine to fractionate cellular components by size. ..."
5. Okay, Girls by Helen Gilbert (2006)
"We were ushered through many hallways, past game rooms alive with pachinko
machines (their version of slots), restaurants, and a pool. Very posh. ..."
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