dominoes; domino game
Refers to the game played with domino tiles; in context it can also refer to the tiles used in the game.
When I was a child, I often played dominoes with my grandfather.
The children spent a long time lining up the dominoes.
Abbreviation of ドミノ現象. Often appears in compounds such as 倒産ドミノ, where one event triggers a chain of similar events.
See also: ドミノ現象
A domino effect of bankruptcies is spreading among small and midsize companies.
As the recession dragged on, a chain of small business bankruptcies swept through.
When one domino fell, the others toppled one after another.
ドミノ倒し literally describes dominoes falling one after another and stresses the collapsing/failing aspect, whereas ドミノ (used figuratively) just points to the chain-reaction pattern itself.
Also used for domino tiles as flat objects in everyday speech.
A katakana word corresponding to English 'domino'. No language-of-origin field is specified, so the exact borrowing route is not specified here.