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bowling pin

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Noun1.bowling pinbowling pin - a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
bowling equipment - equipment used in bowling
candlepin - a bowling pin that is thin by comparison with a tenpin
duckpin - a bowling pin that is short and squat by comparison with a tenpin
headpin, kingpin - the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins
ninepin, skittle, skittle pin - a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles
tenpin - one of the bottle-shaped pins used in bowling


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Working in front of mirrors recently in O'Reilly's class were students creating such characters as a mermaid hit by a speedboat, a victim of a plastic surgery gone wrong and a clown who was injured while juggling knives and a bowling pin.
This year the top-flight architects won the Structural Ingenuity award for its entry: three, seven-foot tall bowling pins and a giant bowling ball all "canstructed" from more than 2,000 cans of food.
For a bowling party when my son turned six, we designed tandem cakes: a bowling pin and a bowling ball.
 
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