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Meaning of slot machine in English
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Meaning of slot machine in English

If one child buys one packet of cigarettes every day from a particular slot machine, is that machine being used "extensively" to supply children?
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Those people who pay on the dot through the slot machine, get away with it.
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It might stem inflation by a little, if only for the motoring public and some of the slot machine vendors.
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I come now to the evil of the slot machine.
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There is one thing that may be said in favour of the slot machine.
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He reacts, apparently, like some kind of slot machine.
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They did not want more "palaces of culture"—a euphemism for slot machine arcades.
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Do they want to have to put money in a slot machine?
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The normal way of obtaining this further cover is by putting a coin into a slot machine with a time-stamping device inside.
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A person still cannot buy a pound's worth of stamps in a slot machine and walk away.
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Or if ten children buy one packet of cigarettes a week from a particular slot machine, is it being "extensively" so used?
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Within these physical limitations any slot machine may be used for the sale of any article which can legally be offered for sale.
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We stayed at a certain place which had an electricity slot machine.
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We can obtain accident cover at airports merely by putting some money into a slot machine.
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In such a case the person going to the slot machine would need to take out an additional £6,000 insurance cover.
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Translations of slot machine
in Chinese (Traditional)
投幣式自動賭博機，吃角子老虎機…
in Chinese (Simplified)
投币式自动赌博机，吃角子老虎机…
in Spanish
máquina tragaperras, tragaperras [feminine, singular]…
in Portuguese
caça-níqueis, máquina caça-níqueis [feminine]…
in more languages
in Japanese
in Turkish
in Catalan
in Swedish
in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
in Russian
in Indonesian
in Vietnamese
in Italian
スロットマシン, スロットマシーン…
kumar makinası, otomatik satış makinası…
machine [feminine] à sous, distributeur (automatique)…
màquina escurabutxaques…
varuautomat…
mesin lubang alur…
der Automat…
spilleautomat [masculine], (spille)automat…
игорный автомат…
آلة لِلَعِب القُمار…
mesin penjual otomatis…
เครื่องขายของอัตโนมัติโดยการหยอดเหรียญ…
máy bán hàng tự động…
automat (do gry ), automat…
macchinetta slot da bar, distributore automatico…
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