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Tenpin

Any of the bottle-shaped targets used in tenpin bowling.

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  1. 1

    Any of the bottle-shaped targets used in tenpin bowling.

  2. 2

    The game of ten-pin bowling.

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tenpin bowlingnounA sport where players roll a ball down a wooden pathway and try to knock down as many of the ten target pins as possible.
bowlingnounA game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; tenpin bowling/fivepin bowling
ten-pinnounAlternative form of tenpin. [(countable) Any of the bottle-shaped targets used in tenpin bowling.]
fivepinnounAny of the bottle-shaped targets with rubber rings around them that are used in fivepin bowling.
duckpinnounA short, squat form of tenpin.
tenpinnernounA player of tenpin bowling.
headpinnoun(ten-pin bowling) The kingpin.
kingpinnoun(figurative, informal) The most important person in a usually evil undertaking or organization, often a druglord.
pinsetternoun(bowling) The machine that clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.
candlepinnoun(bowling) A kind of cylindrical tenpin used in a North American regional form of bowling.
ninepinnounThe wooden pin used in the game of ninepins; a skittle.
pin setternounAlternative form of pinsetter. [(bowling, originally) The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.]
kettle-pinnoun(archaic) ninepin; skittle
pin-setternounAlternative form of pinsetter. [(bowling, originally) The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.]
tailpinnounThe endpin of a musical instrument.
tie pinnounAlternative form of tiepin. [A tie tack, a pin or stud used to secure a tie to the shirt.]
bagatellenounA trifle; an insubstantial thing.
pushpinnoun(countable) A small pin with a head made for gripping with the fingers, to be pushed into a bulletin board so as to pin papers to it; especially, such a pin with a cylindrical head.
pinternoun(in combinations, UK, slang) The drinking of a certain number of pints of beer
pinpointnounSomething infinitesimal; a tiny point.

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