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fruit machine

NOUN
one-armed bandit
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But former Home Office minister and a critic of royal finances Norman Baker said the duchy would still be a "royal fruit machine... he pulls the handle and gets a jackpot every time".

From BBC May 18, 2026

Corrine Durber, from Gloucestershire, played the Wild Hatter game in October 2020 - a two-part game involving a fruit machine and a wheel of fortune.

From BBC Mar. 5, 2025

It might have begun with Youtube user Quincey11, external and his mates in front of the fruit machine and bar bunting of their local.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2024

Every gambler trusts in a few abstract symbols – the dots on a dice, numerals, suits, red or black, the graphemes on a fruit machine – to tell them who they are.

From The Guardian Aug. 23, 2019

There was no sign of the Moroccan, so he sat down at the fruit machine.

From The Guardian Mar. 20, 2013




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