noun
game equipment on which pinball is played
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in Britain they call a pinball machine a pin table
• Syn: ↑pin table
• Hypernyms: ↑game equipment
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noun or pinball game : an amusement device that consists of a glass-topped cabinet in which a ball propelled by a plunger rolls down a slanting surface among an arrangement of pins and targets with each contact between ball and target scoring a number of points indicated by a system of electric lights
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the tablelike, usually coin-operated machine on which pinball is played.
[1935-40]
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pinball machine,
a mechanical device on which pinball is played.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.