different between pinball vs knocker

English

Etymology

From pin +? ball

Noun

pinball (countable and uncountable, plural pinballs)

1. (games) A game, played on a device with a sloping base, in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points.
2. The ball used in pinball.
3. (figuratively, soccer) A situation where a ball is frantically kicked between many players.

Derived terms

• pinball machine

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: pinball
• ? Spanish: pinball

Translations

Verb

pinball (third-person singular simple present pinballs, present participle pinballing, simple past and past participle pinballed)

1. (intransitive) To dart about rapidly.

Translations

See also

• bagatelle
• pachinko

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English pinball.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /p?.?b?w/

Noun

pinball m (plural pinballs)

1. (games) pinball (an arcade game)

Spanish

Etymology

From English pinball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pimbal/, [?p?m.bal]

Noun

pinball m (plural pinballs)

1. pinball

English

Etymology

knock +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?(r)

Noun

knocker (plural knockers)

1. A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
2. A person who knocks.
   • 1963, Patrick Anderson, The Character Ball: Chapters of Autobiography (page 220)

     He was a loud knocker. Despite my usual timidity, after a bit I opened the door.

3. A critic; one who disparages.
4. (informal, derogatory) A person who knocks (denigrates) something.
5. (slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breasts.
6. (especially Cardigan, in South Wales, archaic) A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking. [18th to 19th c.]
7. (pinball) A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise.
   • 1963, Harper's magazine (volume 226)

     A good game needs color, lights, bells, gongs, and knockers, all to assure the player he is making progress […]

8. (dated, slang) A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner.
9. A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.
10. (geology) A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.
11. (slang) One who defaults on payment of a wager.
    • 2004, Carl Chinn, Better Betting with a Decent Feller (page 48)

      To the consternation of those who believed that bookies were 'knockers' (defaulters), he paid his losses with alacrity […]

Synonyms

• (a woman's breasts): See also Thesaurus:breasts

Derived terms

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