bowling pin
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- noun
- /ˈboʊlɪŋ pɪn/
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- So he's going to work in the morning and all of a sudden something is blocking the road in front of him and he notices something that looks all the world like a tipped over bowling pin.
- shape of a bowling pin
- knock over bowling pins
I have chosen this bowling pin, a length of rope, and this notebook.
- I have chosen this bowling pin, a length of rope, and this notebook.
- Some person came in and said, I've invented a rubber bowling pin, which I thought did not have a close relationship to the fax market.
Examples
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Prosecutor Clare Wilks said: "One witness described it as like a bowling ball being aimed at a load of bowling pins."
Blog text (33) -
In bowling, players aim to knock down all the bowling pins with a strike.
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Why do you use bowling pins?
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You forget how powerful those bowling pins can be.
Blog text (12) -
There are bowling pins mixed in with the wood.
Fiction book (1999) -
They looked like a set of bowling pins.
Fiction book (2001) -
He carried this enormous club that was shaped like a bowling pin.
Fiction book (1991) -
The 3D graphics defined the game, and seeing the bowling pins at the end of the lane in three dimensions is really realistic!
Blog text (23) -
It's the wood of choice for bowling pins, guitars, pool cues...
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The title logo is a suggestively upright bowling pin flanked by a pair of bowling balls.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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1.3
A wooden object shaped like a club set up to be knocked down in bowling
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9.0
A small, short bowling pin used in a type of bowling with smaller balls
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6.5
One of the ten pins in the game of bowling that you knock down with a ball
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8.8
A wooden pin in a game like bowling that players knock down
The front pin of the ten pins in bowling
The front pin in the triangle of ten pins in bowling
A small wooden target that players knock down in the game of skittles
Thin upright bowling pin used in a type of bowling with small balls
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun 'bowling pin' is a straightforward compound formed from 'bowling' (the game) and 'pin' (a skittle/peg), so its referent — the pin used in the game of bowling — is directly derivable from the parts. This compositional noun-noun pattern is common and predictable cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words would readily understand the meaning.
Etymology
Bowling pin comes from the idea of a pin, a peg set up to be knocked down in the game of bowling. That's why the name now means the heavy wooden object shaped like a club that players try to knock down.