ninepins
pronunciation
How to pronounce ninepins in British English:
UK [ˈnaɪnpɪnz]
How to pronounce ninepins in American English:
US
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- Noun:
- bowling down an alley at a target of nine wooden pins
Word Origin
- ninepins (n.)
- 1570s, from nine + plural of pin (n.). From the number of pins to be knocked down.
Example
- 1. A wooden pin used in the game of ninepins .
- 2. Can 't knock over ninepins , can 't knock over a woman .
- 3. He was born in june 1921 , the youngest of five children , at a time when thrones and principalities were being toppled like ninepins across europe .
- 4. All his rivals went down before him like ninepins .
- 5. Near one end of the lawn were twelve old-fashioned knights playing at ninepins .