pachinko
English
Modern pachinko machines
Alternative forms
- pachinco
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese パチンコ (pachinko), from ぱちん (pachin, onomatopoeic sound) + こ (ko, diminutive).
Pronunciation
- enPR: pə-chĭng'kō, IPA(key): /pəˈt͡ʃɪŋkəʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋkəʊ
Noun
pachinko (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:
- 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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Derived terms
- pachinko allocation
- pachislo, pachislot, pachisuro
Translations
game
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Verb
pachinko (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:
- 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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Translations
tumble down
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See also
- bagatelle
- pinball
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)
- pachinko
Derived terms
- pachinkohal
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese パチンコ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɑtʃiŋko/, [ˈpɑt̪ʃiŋko̞]
- IPA(key): /ˈpɑtsiŋko/, [ˈpɑts̠iŋko̞]
- Syllabification(key): pa‧chin‧ko
Noun
pachinko
- 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 | |
| Possessive forms of pachinko (type valo) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | pachinkoni | pachinkomme |
| 2nd person | pachinkosi | pachinkonne |
| 3rd person | pachinkonsa | |
Japanese
Romanization
pachinko
- Rōmaji transcription of ぱちんこ
- Rōmaji transcription of パチンコ