📖 Definitions of "Tenpin"
noun
- 1
Any of the bottle-shaped targets used in tenpin bowling.
- 2
The game of ten-pin bowling.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| tenpin bowlingnoun | A sport where players roll a ball down a wooden pathway and try to knock down as many of the ten target pins as possible. |
| bowlingnoun | A 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-pinnoun | Alternative form of tenpin. [(countable) Any of the bottle-shaped targets used in tenpin bowling.] |
| fivepinnoun | Any of the bottle-shaped targets with rubber rings around them that are used in fivepin bowling. |
| duckpinnoun | A short, squat form of tenpin. |
| tenpinnernoun | A 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. |
| ninepinnoun | The wooden pin used in the game of ninepins; a skittle. |
| pin setternoun | Alternative 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-setternoun | Alternative form of pinsetter. [(bowling, originally) The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.] |
| tailpinnoun | The endpin of a musical instrument. |
| tie pinnoun | Alternative form of tiepin. [A tie tack, a pin or stud used to secure a tie to the shirt.] |
| bagatellenoun | A 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 |
| pinpointnoun | Something infinitesimal; a tiny point. |
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