kingpin

Examples

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• I rode a Kingpin before this, and there was no problem with rear pegs on this bike either.

  Blog text (34)

• A place called Sawtucket, the Kingpin Bowling Alley.

  Run (1991)

• The Kingpin Bowling Alley.

  Run (1991)

• "How's a man supposed to support his family with a bunch of incompetents supporting him?" he would barrel, kicking over the kingpin in an arrangement of empty Ballantine cans.

  Fiction book (1992)

• In bowling, the kingpin is the front pin that you aim to knock down first.

• When he bowled, he focused on hitting the kingpin to maximize his score.

• The best strategy for a strike is to hit the kingpin directly with the first ball.

Synonyms

P

pin

vskingpin

49 1.3

A wooden object shaped like a club set up to be knocked down in bowling

refers narrowly to the front piece among a triangular set of ten

B

bowling pin

vskingpin

3 1.4

A heavy wooden thing shaped like a club that players try to knock down in bowling

is narrower, referring only to the front target in the set of ten

T

tenpin

vskingpin

1 6.5

One of the ten pins in the game of bowling that you knock down with a ball

is specifically the front target rather than any of the ten

H

headpin

vskingpin

• Jargon

6.9

The front pin of the ten pins in bowling

has identical meaning but uses a different term

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Etymology