pachinko

• pachinco

Borrowed from Japanese パチンコ (pachinko), from ぱちん (pachin, onomatopoeic sound of the machines) + こ (ko, diminutive). Compare etymology of gacha, from Japanese ガシャポン.

• enPR: pə-chĭng'kō, IPA^(key): /pəˈt͡ʃɪŋkəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋkəʊ

pachinko (countable and uncountable, plural pachinkos)

1. A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.
   • 1952 October 12, Ray Falk, “Pinball Panic Over Japan: ‘Pachinko’ is a zany game; its havoc is nation-wide”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 August 2025:

     Two teen-age boys, after selling their personal belongings to play pachinko, sold their blood to "gamble.”

   • 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 8:

     The rain kept up, falling along Harajuku, beading on her plastic jacket, the children of Tokyo trooping past the famous boutiques in white loafers and clingwrap capes, until she'd stood with him in the midnight clatter of a pachinko parlor and held his hand like a child.

   • 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 November 2013:

     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.

• pachinko allocation
• pachislo, pachislot, pachisuro
• pachinko machine (synonym)

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

1. (intransitive) To tumble down through a series of obstacles.
   • 2016, Alex Livingston, Glitch Rain‎^[3]:

     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.

• bagatelle
• pinball

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

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

1. pachinko

• pachinkohal

Borrowed from Japanese パチンコ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑtʃiŋko/, [ˈpɑ̝t̪ʃiŋko̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑtsiŋko/, [ˈpɑ̝ts̠iŋko̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑtʃiŋko
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧chin‧ko
• Hyphenation^(key): pa‧chin‧ko

pachinko

1. pachinko

pachinko

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