Meanings of one-armed bandit in English

He walked past the flickering one-armed bandit and under the oak beam.

Your odds are better in Vegas, which never had great odds for a palooka pulling a one-armed bandit.

It's like a one-armed bandit.

In other words, Cyberview has pulled an arcade skin over a one-armed bandit, and each explosion is a pull of the arm.

But mostly hopes for the future are invested in the one-armed bandits and poker tables.

She did not go in, merely peered in at the solitary overweight men operating the one-armed bandits.

LaGuardia's personal administration of the sledgehammer to a large number of the one-armed bandits occasioned, some memorable newsreel footage.

And, like with those one-armed bandits, a lot more of your coins are likely to go in than you ever get out.

So far, this has been a strange and beautiful dream, full of Buddhist monks in orange robes lined up at the one-armed bandits.

In these last days, the gambling action is frenetic: Chinese, Thai, Korean, and Malays, they play baccarat mostly, but some prefer the one-armed bandits.

Even so, the one-armed bandits, like craps, were a huge success with both the player and the Outfit, which grossed untold millions of tax-free dollars.

The jingle of one-armed bandits, the clinking of glasses and bottles, the rustling of bills at the poker tables, and the murmur of suppressed expectation.