fruit machine

English

Etymology

fruit +‎ machine

(slot machine): From originating with machines with fruit pictures
(criminology): From being a machine used to identify fruits (“homosexuals”)
(food): From being a machine containing fruits

Noun

fruit machine (plural fruit machines)

(Britain, gambling) A slot machine, especially one having spinning wheels identified with pictures of fruit.
(Canada, criminology, slang) A device developed to identify homosexual people by measuring their physical responses to different kinds of pornography.
(food) A vending machine which handles fruit

See also

fruit machine (homosexuality test) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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