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one-armed bandit
noun- a slot machine gambling device US, 1938
- The night we were there, we saw three fancy one-armed bandits whirring and swallowing. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 65, 1951
- “What’s so special about slots?” “The one-armed bandit is a dilly.” — Stephen Longstreet, The Flesh Peddlers, p. 295, 1962
- a petrol pump UK
From a vague similarity in appearance to a fruit machine. - — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 156, 1981
- that part of an automatic warning system mounted in a diesel locomotive’s cab UK
- — Frank McKenna, A Glossary of Railwaymen’s Talk, 1970
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