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Word entry · 8 letters

pachinko

Best crossword clue

"Japanese arcade game"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /pəˈt͡ʃɪŋkəʊ/Part of speech nounSorted achiknopStarts with PEnds with O2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board

Word origin

Borrowed from Japanese パチンコ (pachinko), from ぱちん (pachin, onomatopoeic sound of the machines) + こ (ko, diminutive). Compare etymology of gacha, from Japanese ガシャポン.

Used in a sentence

  • Two teen-age boys, after selling their personal belongings to play pachinko, sold their blood to "gamble.”
  • Snow 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.
  • 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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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Japanese arcade game8 letters
02Japanese pinball game8 letters

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