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Definition of Penny arcade
1. Noun. An arcade with coin-operated devices for entertainment.
Definition of Penny arcade
1. Noun. A venue for coin-operated devices, most notably during the 1930s. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Penny Arcade
Literary usage of Penny arcade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1917)
"OPERATOR OF penny arcade. ... The court construed the words "dealer" as including
one who operated a "penny arcade" where machines exhibiting pictures to a ..."
2. Library Ideals by Henry Eduard Legler (1918)
"Would the critics prefer to have the children glue their faces to the glass in
the vulgar and suggestive shows of the penny arcade? The craving for novelty ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"penny arcade A "penny arcade" le a place where a number of machines are kept for
profit, each of which, by a mechanical arrangement, exhibits pictures to a ..."
4. The Code of Alabama: Adopted by Act of the Legislature of Alabama; Approved by Alabama, James Jefferson Mayfield (1907)
"Where several such slot machines are run or operated as a "penny arcade" or like
place of amusement, the total license on all machines so run or operated in ..."
5. Famous Leaders of Industry: The Life Stories of Boys who Have Succeeded by Edwin Wildman, Trentwell Mason White, Harry Irving Shumway (1920)
"So he got a man named Marcus Loew, also a furrier, whom he knew pretty well, to
go partners with him in a penny-arcade business. Starting with nine in New ..."
6. San Francisco-Oakland Directory (1907)
"... tel Park 1177 and 1069 Brdy, Oak Nickelodeon and penny arcade, 472 7th, Oak,
... 10th av & Fulton, SF, tel Pacific 301 penny arcade, 1326 Fillmore, SF, ..."
7. Revenue Code of the State of Alabama, 1911. Pub. by the Auditor by Alabama (1911)
"Where several such slot machines are run or operated as a "penny arcade" or like
place of amusement, the total license on all machines so run or operated in ..."
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