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ninepins
[ nahyn-pinz ]
noun
- (used with a singular verb) tenpins played without the head pin.
- ninepin, a pin used in this game.
ninepins
/ ˈnaɪnˌpɪnz /
noun
- functioning as singular another name for skittles See skittle
- singular one of the pins used in this game
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ninepins1
1570–80; nine + pin ( def 12 )
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Example Sentences
The result was rather bad for the Turks; they went down like a lot of ninepins before Mole's railway-like progression.
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Three Brazilians went down like ninepins; the rest turned and fled precipitately.
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Tom Richardson, the last man in for England, made sixty-two, while some who shall be nameless went down like ninepins in the van.
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Russian fortresses continued for another month to fall like ninepins before the Austro-German armies.
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To quote one of our Fusiliers, "they fell like ninepins" at each discharge.
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