pokie

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpəʊki/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Synonym of poker machine, an electronic game of chance played for money, especially slot machines. Australia,New-Zealand,in-plural,slang
    — For several decades until the early 1990s, Echuca–Moama existed in the consciousness of Melburnians as the destination for pokie bus-trips. All of this changed when the Kennett Government legalised pokies in Victoria in 1993.
  2. Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus Poecilotheria. informal

词形变化

pokies plural pokies plural

词源

词源 1
From clipping of poker machine + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
词源 2
Shortening of a mispronunciation of genus name Poecilotheria
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