pachinko
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Japanese パチンコ (pachinko), from ぱちん (pachin, onomatopoeic sound of the machines) + こ (ko, diminutive).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpachinko (plural pachinkos)
- A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.
- 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 8:
- The rain kept up, falling along Harajuku, beading on her plastic jacket, the children of Tokyo trooping past the famous boutiques in white loafers and clingwrap capes, until she'd stood with him in the midnight clatter of a pachinko parlor and held his hand like a child.
- 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time[1]:
- 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.
Derived terms
edit- pachinko allocation
- pachislo, pachislot, pachisuro
- pachinko machine (synonym)
Translations
editgame
Verb
editpachinko (third-person singular simple present pachinkos, present participle pachinkoing, simple past and past participle pachinkoed)
- (intransitive) To tumble down through a series of obstacles.
- 2016, Alex Livingston, Glitch Rain[2]:
- 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.
Translations
edittumble down
See also
editDutch
editEtymology
editFrom English pachinko, from Japanese パチンコ (pachinko).
Noun
editpachinko m (plural pachinko's, diminutive pachinkootje n)
Derived terms
editFinnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈpɑtʃiŋko/, [ˈpɑ̝t̪ʃiŋko̞]
- IPA(key): /ˈpɑtsiŋko/, [ˈpɑ̝ts̠iŋko̞]
- Syllabification(key): pa‧chin‧ko
Noun
editpachinko
Declension
editInflection of pachinko (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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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 | |
abessive | pachinkotta | pachinkoitta | |
instructive | — | pachinkoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Japanese
editRomanization
editpachinko
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