pokie

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pō'kē, IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊki/

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• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊki
• Homophone: pokey

From poker machine +‎ -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

pokie (plural pokies)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, chiefly in the plural) 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.

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

• slot machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Shortening of genus name Poecilotheria

pokie (plural pokies)

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

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