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  • noun Australia, New Zealand, slang A poker machine.
  • noun informal Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus Poecilotheria.

Etymologies

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From poker machine +‎ -ie (“diminutive suffix”); believed to have been coined in New South Wales in the 1970s.

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  • Australian - a poker machine, a slot machine.

    March 21, 2008