a coin-operated gambling machine that produces random combinations of symbols (usually pictures of different fruits) on rotating dials; certain combinations win money for the player
双语例句
1
Australia has around 200, 000 pokies, mainly in pubs and clubs, and Britain has at least 250, 000 fruitmachines.
澳大利亚有约20万台角子机,主要分布在酒吧和俱乐部中。而英国至少拥有25万台水果机。
2
In an era when engineers and hobbyists tended to describe their machines with model Numbers, he chose the name of a fruit, supposedly because of his dietary habits at the time.