pachinko
UK /pəˈt͡ʃɪŋkəʊ/ US /pəˈt͡ʃɪŋkəʊ/
noun 1verb 1
Definitions
noun
1
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
1
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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