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pin·ball    Audio Help   [pin-bawl] Pronunciation Key
–noun
any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.
[Origin: 1880–85, Americanism; pin + ball1]
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pin·ball    Audio Help   (pĭn'bôl')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A game played on a device in which the player operates a plunger to shoot a ball down or along a slanted surface having obstacles and targets, often equipped with flippers to keep the ball in play.

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pinball 
game played on a sloping surface, 1911, from pin + ball. Earlier it meant "a pincushion" (1803).

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