English

Noun

pokie ‎(plural pokies)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A poker machine.
   • 2004, Bernard Salt, The Big Shift, page 77,

     For several decades until the early 1990s, Echuca–Moama existed in the consciousness of Melburnians as the destination for pokie bus-trips. All of this changed when the Kennett Government legalised pokies in Victoria in 1993.

   • 2006, author not known, Sydney City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 148,

     In reality, the cheap beer and walls of pokies attract anyone and everyone.

   • 2008, Catherine Deveny, Say When, page 171,

     None of these people around me punching the pokies has walked in here today expecting to be a loser.

Synonyms

• poker machine, pokie machine, fruit machine, slot, slot machine

See also

• slot machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Shortening of genus name Poecilotheria

Noun

pokie ‎(plural pokies)

1. (informal) Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus Poecilotheria.

External links

• Poecilotheria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Poecilotheria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Poecilotheria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons