Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Japanese arcade game”8 letters
02“Japanese pinball game”8 letters
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