pachinko

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): /pəˈtʃɪŋkəʊ/

Noun

pachinko (plural pachinkos)

1. A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.
   • 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.

Verb

pachinko (third-person singular simple present pachinkos, present participle pachinkoing, simple past and past participle pachinkoed)

1. 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.

Etymology

From English pachinko, from Japanese パチンコ (pachinko).

Noun

pachinko m (plural pachinko's, diminutive pachinkootje n)

1. pachinko

Romanization

pachinko

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぱちんこ
2. Rōmaji transcription of パチンコ