• Vending-machine

    Full definition of vending-machine

    Noun

    vending-machine

    (plural vending-machines)
    1. .
      • 17 December 1889, Henry T. Crepeau, Automatic Vending-Machine, In an automatic vending-machine, the combination, with the case and the goods-drawer arranged to slide therein, and the locking devices for the latter, of the movable partition and the locking-tongue projecting downward into the money-receptacle, the chute extending from the locking devices upward to a point near the top of the partition, and the movable block provided with a slot and adapted to connect the slotted case-front with the chute, substantially as set forth.
      • 10 April 1984, Cryptic Crossword, Love-apple in Canberra’s university put out of order a vending-machine.
      • 20 April 2000, Bob Morris, Buddy can you spare a two?, If we carry two-dollar bills, we’ll never have to carry more than one Sacajawea, and those one-dollar coins will save vending-machines, mass-transit systems, and pay telephones hundreds of millions of dollars more.
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