打ち止め

English translation: play out

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Japanese term or phrase:	打ち止め
English translation:	play out
Entered by:	Anita Kobayashi

10:26 Dec 4, 2006

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Games / Video Games / Gaming / Casino / Ｐａｃｈｉｎｋｏ

Japanese term or phrase: 打ち止め

The term appears in a description of the operation of a pachinko machine.

tonymacg KudoZ activity Questions: 1 (none open) Answers: 1
Local time: 02:19

to play out

Explanation:
うちどめ打ち止め

the end

打ち止めにする〈興行などを〉 bring 《the show》 to a close [an end]

パチンコの機械を打ち止めにする play out a pachinko machine

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Note added at 26 Min. (2006-12-04 10:52:32 GMT)
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japanese explanation: http://www.pachinkovillage.ne.jp/jiten/a.html

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Anita Kobayashi
Japan
Local time: 01:19

Grading comment

I settled on 'play out' after considering this and 3
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +2

to play out

Anita Kobayashi

To stop

Manj

empty (a pachinko machine of all the balls) / ultimate jackpot

sigmalanguage

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17 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

to play out

Anita Kobayashi
Japan
Local time: 01:19
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

I settled on 'play out' after considering this and 3

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks - particularly for the reference to the Web site

5 hrs confidence:

To stop

Explanation:
This could mean stop. That is to stop some action

Manj
Local time: 21:49
Native speaker of:

English,

Japanese

1 day 4 hrs confidence:

empty (a pachinko machine of all the balls) / ultimate jackpot

Explanation:
If you hit a jackpot on a pachinko machine and get a large number of balls, the balls in the pachinko machine will eventually run out of its reserve. Then you have to stop playing with the machine. This is called 打ち止め, literally meaning "stopping of hitting (balls)".

For a verb, "to empty" will be a good candidate.

For a noun, I can only think of "ultimate jackpot", although it does not express the full meaning of 打ち止め.

You may want to be creative to come up with a better expression to suit your needs.

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Note added at 1 day4 hrs (2006-12-05 15:00:34 GMT)
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Please read:
If you hit a jackpot on a pachinko machine and get a large number of balls, the pachinko machine will eventually run out of its reserve of balls. ....

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Note added at 1 day4 hrs (2006-12-05 15:11:23 GMT)
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Depending on the context, "run out of balls" or "sealed off" might suit.

When a machine spits out all its balls, a pachinko parlor employee seals off the machine with a sign that reads "打ち止め" so no one can the machine for the rest of the day. If somebody says, この台は打ち止めです, it means the machine has run out of all its balls and is sealed off for the day.

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Note added at 1 day4 hrs (2006-12-05 15:14:54 GMT)
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Please read:
no one can USE the machine for the rest of the day

Sorry for another correction. Perhaps my brain is half asleep. It is midnight here.

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Note added at 1 day4 hrs (2006-12-05 15:22:41 GMT)
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Or "termination (of operation)", because you wrote that this term is from a description of the operation of a pachinko machine.

I don't know anything about inside mechanisms of pachinko machines, but there should be some way to make the machine inoperable when it runs out of balls. 打ち止め might be refering to the act of making a machine inoperable.

sigmalanguage
Japan
Local time: 01:19
Native speaker of:

Japanese
PRO pts in category: 4

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks for all your efforts - I now have a very clear idea of what is going on.

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