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pin boy

noun

  1. (formerly) a person stationed in the sunken area of a bowling alley behind the pins who places the pins in the proper positions, removes pins that have been knocked down, and returns balls to the bowlers.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pin boy1

First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences

By age 15, Lou was boxing in barroom smokers for $5 a bout and working as a bowling alley pin boy.

He began his working career as a pin boy at a Bethesda bowling alley, and he would later claim to have once bowled a perfect 300 game.

Knipple, 68, said he began his life-long passion of bowling as a pin boy for Capital Lanes and other alleys in the area.

Strangely, the job readily available to me was at the town bowling alley, where I worked one night a week as a pin boy.

To perform the job of pin boy, you sat perched above a pit on a wooden bench, hidden behind a latticework of machinery.

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