• one-armed bandit – однорукий бандит
См. также: bank guarantee, banking operations and transactions, bank card, banking union
If you cover your face with a bandanna, jump on your horse, and rob the passengers on a train, you're a bandit. A bandit typically belongs to a gang of bandits who commit crimes in remote, lawless, or out-of-the-way places. (Vocabulary.com)
"The family requests absolutely zero privacy or propriety, none what so ever, and in fact encourages you to spend some government money today on a one-armed bandit, at the blackjack table or on a cheap cruise to find our inheritance. She spent it all, folks. She left me nothing but these lousy memories." (BBC News)
The eldest, aged about thirteen, rose early and won £5 on the one-armed bandit, which she generously shared with her two siblings. (The Herald)
Russian brokers burst on the London scene in the mid-1990s during those first few heady years of Russian bandit capitalism, after the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Empire were demolished. (Financial Times)
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