poker machine

plural poker machines

1. An electronic machine used to play games of chance for money, especially
   1. USAn electronic machine used to play poker.

      Even there, you see poker machines placed in the bar counter to greet you.

      2010, Marina Milicevic, Vegas Dealer, page 19

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      He didn′t always play the same poker machine, but he never went to the tables where he would have to interact with a live dealer. In fact, he usually stuck to the row of poker machines closer to the back door.

      2007, Max Allan Collins, Double Dealer: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Mortal Wounds, page 119

      Even better, there are some video poker machines — admittedly, they′re very hard to find — that actually offer favorable odds if you play perfectly.

      2007, Mary Herczog, Las Vegas for Dummies, page 177

   2. AustraliaNew ZealandSynonym of slot machine.

      In New South Wales poker machines were legalized in clubs in 1956.

      1973, Francis Keble Crowley, Modern Australia in Documents: 1939-1970, page 351

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      Lotteries, horse-racing and poker machines loom large in the life experience of many Australians.

      1974, Donald Ernest Edgar, Social Change in Australia: Readings in Sociology, page 23

      At that time Ainsworth had been manufacturing and selling poker machines in NSW for nineteen years.

      1991, Queensland Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Papers, volume 4, page 303

      He approached people who were not in the criminal world, including his poker machine attendant, to acquire firearms or arrange hitmen for him.

      2008, Malcolm Brown, editor, Cold Blooded Murder: True Crimes That Rocked Australia, unnumbered page

      I was also shocked that the poker machines (which we call pokies back home) were on full display, as in Australia, they legally have to be in a separate room.

      2023 July 21, Billie Schwab Dunn, “I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy...”, in Daily Star

      Synonyms: slot machine