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pinballer

noun

Etymology

From pinball + -er.

  1. derived from *bʰel-✻
  2. derived from *bʰélō✻
  3. inherited from *balluz✻
  4. derived from bǫllr
  5. inherited from *beall✻
  6. inherited from bal
  7. compounded as pinball — “pin + ball”
  8. suffixed as pinballer — “pinball + er”

Definitions

  1. A player of pinball.

    • They sat in a booth near the door and drank the first cold ones of the evening while watching three impassioned pinballers dickering with flashing, promising, tilting machines.

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