ONE-ARMED BANDIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does one-armed bandit mean? 

• ONE-ARMED BANDIT (noun)
  The noun ONE-ARMED BANDIT has 1 sense:

1. a slot machine that is used for gambling

  Familiarity information: ONE-ARMED BANDIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONE-ARMED BANDIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slot machine that is used for gambling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

one-armed bandit; slot

Context example:

they spend hours and hours just playing the slots

Hypernyms ("one-armed bandit" is a kind of...):

coin machine; slot machine (a machine that is operated by the insertion of a coin in a slot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "one-armed bandit"):

fruit machine (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)