alley
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- noun
- /ˈæli/
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pista de bolos
- I called because I want to give you the combination... to my locker at the bowling alley.
- a bowling alley
And of course, you're always putting, you know, think of bowling alley, you're putting bumper guards up to protect them.
- And of course, you're always putting, you know, think of bowling alley, you're putting bumper guards up to protect them.
- It's a it was a bowling alley one time that they dugout huge.
Examples
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Well, we had some French fries at the bowling alley.
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I'll be in the bowling alley.
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I need to ask the bowling alley we go to if they have one of those.
Blog text (21) -
Oh, look, a bowling alley.
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The job she'd had at the bowling alley was running the shoe counter.
Fiction book (1994) -
- At Nathan's Bowling Alley in Queens.
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We pour into the bowling alley, teaming up to play a series or two.
Fiction book (2000) -
We are looking across the length of the bowling alley at a tall, thin, Hispanic bowler displaying perfect form.
Fiction book (1998) -
The enclosure around the electrical transformers that powered the bowling alley had rusted away, enabling the boys to slip inside.
Academic text (2011) -
We had a great time at the bowling alley playing games with friends.
Synonyms
A long narrow lane where people roll a ball to knock down pins
Idioms
Compounds
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An area in New York where many popular songwriters and music publishers worked in the early 1900s
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word alley comes from the old French alée, meaning 'a walk' or 'a passage', and from the verb aller 'to go', the same root behind amble 'to walk slowly'. So a bowling alley is simply a long path where the ball 'goes' toward the pins.