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pinball

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1. pinball - Noun

2. pinball - Verb

Meaning

a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets

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No, George said, you don't understand. The pinball machine--any pinball machine you play in any penny arcade--is so remarkable, so fine, so shrewdly threaded. It is already beautiful in necessity and sufficiency of wire, connection, possibility. Grace Paley

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better. Bill Budge

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want. Emile Hirsch

I just always loved pinball. Kevin Dillon

The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation. Rex Hunt

[He] had invented a pinball machine. When we saw it, we said, George! This is not a pinball machine alone. This is the poem of a pinball machine, the essence made delicately concrete, and so forth.”. Grace Paley

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