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TENPINS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tenpins mean?
• TENPINS (noun)
The noun TENPINS has 1 sense:
1. bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins
Familiarity information: TENPINS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
tenpin bowling; tenpins
Hypernyms ("tenpins" 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)
Domain member category:
split ((tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl)
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