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ONE-ARMED BANDIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A slot machine that is used for gambling
Example:
they spend hours and hours just playing the slots
Synonyms:
one-armed bandit; slot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("one-armed bandit" is a kind of...):
coin machine; slot machine (a machine that is operated by the insertion of a coin in a slot)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "one-armed bandit"):
fruit machine (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)
