fruit machine

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   a coin-operated gambling machine that produces random combinations of symbols (usually pictures of different fruits) on rotating dials; certain combinations win money for the player

   Broaderslot

   United Kingdom

Questions about fruit machine

What does fruit machine mean?

fruit machine means "a coin-operated gambling machine that produces random combinations of symbols (usually pictures of different fruits) on rotating dials; certain combinations win money for the player".

Is fruit machine a common word?

fruit machine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.