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pinballs

  • plural
    of pinball.
    pinball
    noun
    any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.

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Other attendees, lounging on cushions throughout the boutique, gazed down at their e-readers but peeked as cats bounced around like pinballs in their periphery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

Elliot Daly, the only back with north of 50 caps, pinballs back to the 11 shirt from full-back.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025

And so when you think or hear something, you don't think, next on a timeline ... it shoots you off, it pinballs you back to this time.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2023

The swashbuckling-themed bar with a ship hull has pinballs and pull-tabs and, behind the bar, slushies, cocktails and beers all served on tap.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

And then Abby nudges me again later to pick up a pen she dropped, and it’s pinballs all over again.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

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