gobble hole

plural gobble holes

1. pinballA hole in a pinball table that ends play of the current ball if the ball falls down it.

   Happy Days had nine gobble holes, but no outlanes or gap between the flippers. Each gobble hole would light a square of the backglass's tic-tac-toe board […]

   1997, Gary Flower, Bill Kurtz, Pinball: the lure of the silver ball

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   Pinball is a metaphor for life, pitting man's skill, nerve, persistence, and luck against the perverse machinery of human existence. […] But it is replete with perils, too: culs-de-sac, traps, gutters, and gobble holes down which the ball may disappear forever.

   1987, Gerald Henry Levin, Prose models