pachinko
Collocations
5ADJ.
dead
VERB + PACHINKO
bundle, caught, don't, entered, loves, pins, play, playing
PACHINKO + NOUN
blood, lottery, machine, parlor, wife
PREP.
in
ADV.
instead
Definitions
noun
A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.
Two teen-age boys, after selling their personal belongings to play pachinko, sold their blood to "gamble.”
The rain kept up, falling along Harajuku, beading on her plastic jacket, the children of Tokyo trooping past the famous boutiques in white loafers and clingwrap capes, until she'd stood with him in the midnight clatter of a pachinko parlor and held his hand like a child.
verb
To tumble down through a series of obstacles.
She drizzled them in slowly and listened to the susurration of the bolts pachinkoing their way through the refrigerators and fax machines, on their way to some illegal dump.
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6Two teen-age boys, after selling their personal belongings to play pachinko, sold their blood to "gamble.”
WiktionaryThe rain kept up, falling along Harajuku, beading on her plastic jacket, the children of Tokyo trooping past the famous boutiques in white loafers and clingwrap capes, until she'd stood with him in th
WiktionarySnow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.
WiktionaryShe drizzled them in slowly and listened to the susurration of the bolts pachinkoing their way through the refrigerators and fax machines, on their way to some illegal dump.
WiktionaryI don't have good luck, so I don't play pachinko or buy lottery tickets.
Tatoeba · #39821Jiro was all smiles after he made a bundle at the pachinko parlor.
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