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means A coin-operated arcade game where you launch a steel ball up a tilted playfield and use flipper buttons to keep it bouncing among bumpers, lights, and targets for as long and as high-scoring as possible before it drains.

from 'Pin' plus 'ball' is literal: early machines, dating to games like bagatelle in the 1700s-1800s, used upright pins as obstacles for a rolling ball. The coin-op version took off in the early 1900s as a pinless, gravity-driven bagatelle variant, but the word 'pin' stuck even after the pins mostly vanished. Flippers themselves weren't added until the late 1930s/1940s — before that, it was pure luck and a plunger, no 'your reflexes' required; the skill-game identity came later and is why some cities once banned it as gambling.