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Tenpins

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ten·pin  (tnpn)
n.
1. One of the bottle-shaped pins used in bowling.
2. tenpins (used with a sing. verb) See bowling.
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Noun1.Tenpinstenpins - bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins
tenpin bowling
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
split - (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl; "he was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame"


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Down went the Galu and Kro-lu warriors like tenpins before that deadly fusillade.
The People That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
He was not sure that he could manage the "sheeny," and he did not mean to take any chances with his district; let the Republicans nominate a certain obscure but amiable friend of Scully's, who was now setting tenpins in the cellar of an Ashland Avenue saloon, and he, Scully, would elect him with the "sheeny's" money, and the Republicans might have the glory, which was more than they would get otherwise.
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