pinball: Meaning and Definition of

pin•ball

Pronunciation: (pin'bôl"), [key]
— n.
  1. any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.
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