Definitions for pinball

pinball pin·ball

Spelling: [pin-bawl]
IPA: /ˈpɪnˌbɔl/

Pinball is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in pinball (abillnp).

Definitions for pinball

noun

  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.

Origin of pinball

An Americanism dating back to 1880-85; pin + ball1

Examples for pinball

Asteroids, at the moment I am writing, is the most popular coin-operated game—video, pinball, or other—in the United States.

From pinball games to tennis and skiing, from virtual bowling to virtual football, our thoughts make new experiences possible.

We just did a test yesterday and if he inspects this place now, we won't get enough money to build a pinball machine.

Later, in the Recreation Lounge, Ringg challenged him to a game with one of the pinball machines.

Not so long ago, pinball machines were as much a fixture in French cafés as coffee and Calvados.

Resolutely, Bart turned his back on the bewitching colors, and bent over the pinball machine.

The lure and addiction of gaming—which went back to pinball, of course—became a sensation with Asteroids.

In fact, it was by way of pinball that Fisher came to Asteroids in the first place.

At its best, the education “system” is about as organized as a pinball machine.

Perhaps it will be up to the Americans to save the pinball machines of Paris in the few bars and cafés where they still exist.

Word Value for pinball
Scrable

11

Words with friends

16

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