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plural pachinkos
A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan. quotations examples
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.
1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, page 8
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.
2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time
third-person singular simple present pachinkos, present participle pachinkoing, simple past and past participle pachinkoed
(intransitive) To tumble down through a series of obstacles. quotations examples
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.
2016, Alex Livingston, Glitch Rain