credit-card slot

A form of credit card slot — A slot in a card reader in which a credit or debit card is inserted or swiped.

Meanings

nouncredit-card slot (plural credit-card slots)

plural credit-card slots

  1. alternativeAlternative form of credit card slot.

    The Royce Leather wireless Bluetooth wallet and GPS tracker is thin enough to fit in a credit-card slot.

    2016 June 19, Gannett, “Lost and found: Tracking devices locate belongings in seconds”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 136, number 276, Kansas City, Mo., →ISSN, page 4
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    Follow the prompts, and the kiosk spits out an electronic room key, which you activate by inserting it into the credit-card slot.

    2004 April 12, Michael Arndt, “Travel”, in BusinessWeek, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, page 110, column 2

    Jug-eared, with a great conk of a nose and a small mouth like a credit-card slot, fantastically crowned with a twin-tailed coonskin hat, Lewis looks a more likely candidate for the comedy circuit than the drawing room.

    2010, Jonathan Raban, “Driving Home”, in Driving Home: An American Scrapbook, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 66
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