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CANDLEPINS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does candlepins mean?
• CANDLEPINS (noun)
The noun CANDLEPINS has 1 sense:
1. a bowling game using slender bowling pins
Familiarity information: CANDLEPINS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bowling game using slender bowling pins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
candlepin bowling; candlepins
Hypernyms ("candlepins" is a kind of...):
bowling (a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them)
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