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词汇 pinball
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pinball n.

also pin-ball, 1907, type of game played on a sloping surface where the goal was to knock down a pin or pins, from pin (n.) + ball (n.1). Earlier it meant "a pincushion" (1803). The tabletop pin-ball machine is attested from 1937.

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