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fruit machine

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noun

  1. a gambling machine that pays out when certain combinations of diagrams, usually of fruit, are displayed

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They have pumped coins into the Zak Crawley fruit machine in the hope he pays out in Australia and Ben Duckett is among the premier openers in the world.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025

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

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

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2013

He was, according to the Mirror, sent flying by a bodybuilder twice his size in the Railway Inn in Hyde after butting into a queue to get at a fruit machine.

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2010

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