bowling pin
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1.4
- noun
- /ˈboʊlɪŋ pɪn/
- 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
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Watch on YouTubeI 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."
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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.
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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!
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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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8.8
A wooden pin in a game like bowling that players knock down
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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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8.6
Thin upright bowling pin used in a type of bowling with small balls
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6.8
A small wooden target that players knock down in the game of skittles
The front pin of the ten pins in bowling
The front pin in the triangle of ten pins in bowling
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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.