kalo-kalo
n.— «Kalo-kalo: 1. One armed bandit. 2. Amusement arcade game machines.» —by Babawilly Babawilly’s Dictionary of Pidgin English Words and Phrase (Nigeria) , 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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