pachinko

English

Modern pachinko machines

Alternative forms

  • pachinco

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese パチンコ (pachinko), from ぱちん (pachin, onomatopoeic sound) + (ko, diminutive).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pə-chĭng'kō, IPA(key): /pəˈtʃɪŋkəʊ/

Noun

pachinko (plural pachinkos)

  1. A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.
    • 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time:
      Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.

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Verb

pachinko (third-person singular simple present pachinkos, present participle pachinkoing, simple past and past participle pachinkoed)

  1. (intransitive) To tumble down through a series of obstacles.
    • 2016, Alex Livingston, Glitch Rain
      She drizzled them in slowly and listened to the susurration of the bolts pachinkoing their way through the refrigerators and fax machines, on their way to some illegal dump.

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See also


Dutch

A pachinko room in Akihabara, Japan.

Etymology

From English pachinko, from Japanese パチンコ (pachinko).

Noun

pachinko m (plural pachinko's, diminutive pachinkootje n)

  1. pachinko

Derived terms

  • pachinkohal

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese パチンコ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑtʃiŋko/, [ˈpɑt̪ʃiŋko̞], IPA(key): /ˈpɑtsiŋko/, [ˈpɑt̪s̠iŋko̞]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧chin‧ko

Noun

pachinko

  1. pachinko

Declension

Inflection of pachinko (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative pachinko pachinkot
genitive pachinkon pachinkojen
partitive pachinkoa pachinkoja
illative pachinkoon pachinkoihin
singular plural
nominative pachinko pachinkot
accusative nom. pachinko pachinkot
gen. pachinkon
genitive pachinkon pachinkojen
partitive pachinkoa pachinkoja
inessive pachinkossa pachinkoissa
elative pachinkosta pachinkoista
illative pachinkoon pachinkoihin
adessive pachinkolla pachinkoilla
ablative pachinkolta pachinkoilta
allative pachinkolle pachinkoille
essive pachinkona pachinkoina
translative pachinkoksi pachinkoiksi
instructive pachinkoin
abessive pachinkotta pachinkoitta
comitative pachinkoineen

Japanese

Romanization

pachinko

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぱちんこ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of パチンコ
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