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Definition of One-armed bandit
1. Noun. A slot machine that is used for gambling. "They spend hours and hours just playing the slots"
Definition of One-armed bandit
1. Noun. (gambling) A gaming machine having a long handle (the “arm” referred to in the name) at one side that one pulls down to make reels spin; the player wins money or tokens when certain combinations of symbols line up on these reels. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of One-armed Bandit
Literary usage of One-armed bandit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adaptive Designs: Selected Proceedings of a 1992 Joint Ams-Ims-Siam Summer by Nancy Flournoy, William F. Rosenberger, American Mathematical Society, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1995)
"In the one-armed bandit problem, there is an arm with unknown success probability,
PQ, competing against an arm with known success probability, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856)
"1 But the one-armed bandit was just as calm and collected as he was while munching
our provisions. Supporting his gun on the ..."
3. The Artichoke Trail: A Guide to Vegetarian Restaurants, Organic Food Stores by James Frost (2000)
"Residents spend more of their time mountain biking and skiing then yanking on
the one-armed- bandit. ..."
4. Georgia and the Carolinas by Norman Renouf, Kathy Renouf (1999)
"... respectively); shoot craps (with $5 to $300 double odds); or take on the
one-armed bandit of any of 21 slot machines (playing at 250 to $1). ..."
5. Current Issues in Statistical Inference: Essays in Honor of D. Basu by Dev Basu, Malay Ghosh, Pramod K. Pathak (1992)
"Clayton and Berry (1985) treat the finite horizon one-armed bandit with the
unknown arm producing observations from a Dirichlet process. ..."
6. California: Las Vegas, Reno, Baja California by John Gottberg (1999)
"The cost of pulling the lever of a "one-armed bandit" ranges from one cent to $500!
Other casino games in Las Vegas and Reno include blackjack, poker, ..."
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