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• pachinco

語源

Borrowed from Japanese パチンコ (pachinko), from ぱちん (pachin, onomatopoeic sound of the machines) + こ (ko, diminutive).

発音

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

名詞

pachinko (複数形 pachinkos)

1. A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.
   • 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, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time‎^[1]:

     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.

派生語

• pachinko allocation
• pachislo, pachislot, pachisuro

動詞

pachinko (三人称単数 現在形 pachinkos, 現在分詞 pachinkoing, 過去形および過去分詞形 pachinkoed)

1. (intransitive) To tumble down through a series of obstacles.
   • 2016, Alex Livingston, Glitch Rain‎^[2]:

     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.

参考

• bagatelle
• pinball