Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A slender bowling pin used in a variation of the game of tenpins.
- noun A bowling game using slender pins and a ball smaller than that used in tenpins.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A form of bowling pin slender and nearly straight like a candle.
- noun The game played with such pins; -- in form
candlepins , used as a singular.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of
cylindrical tenpin used in aNorth American regional form ofbowling .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bowling pin that is thin by comparison with a tenpin
Etymologies
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Examples
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She talks about going bowling on an off day during the filming of “New Moon” — candlepin bowling, it sounds like from her description — and how difficult it was to keep score without the electronic aids present at most bowling alleys: “They handed me a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had to do the score by hand,” she says incredulously.
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He took us candlepin bowling and easily convinced me that renting used shoes was luxurious.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011
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He took us candlepin bowling and easily convinced me that renting used shoes was luxurious.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011
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Meanwhile, the young-person's AA meeting held on campus draws more than 200 people each Monday for companionship, confessions, and candlepin bowling.
No Drinks for Them 2009
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My father and his four brothersand the men on my mothers siderelaxed with candlepin bowling and games of whist, and then, later in life, when their children were mostly grown and their work lives mostly determined, weekend rounds of golf on inexpensive nine-hole courses.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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My father and his four brothersand the men on my mothers siderelaxed with candlepin bowling and games of whist, and then, later in life, when their children were mostly grown and their work lives mostly determined, weekend rounds of golf on inexpensive nine-hole courses.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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My father and his four brothersand the men on my mothers siderelaxed with candlepin bowling and games of whist, and then, later in life, when their children were mostly grown and their work lives mostly determined, weekend rounds of golf on inexpensive nine-hole courses.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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My father and his four brothersand the men on my mothers siderelaxed with candlepin bowling and games of whist, and then, later in life, when their children were mostly grown and their work lives mostly determined, weekend rounds of golf on inexpensive nine-hole courses.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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But that elixir-sounding colloquialism is on the wane, alas, like candlepin bowling.
Annoying and pretentious terms. Ann Althouse 2008
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But that elixir-sounding colloquialism is on the wane, alas, like candlepin bowling.
Annoying and pretentious terms. Ann Althouse 2008
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