fruit machine
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
There was no sign of the Moroccan, so he sat down at the fruit machine.
From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2013
In the Coral Island amusement arcade, a woman in a wheelchair is locked in her own eternal dance with a fruit machine, and my horse performs wretchedly in the donkey derby.
From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2010
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