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candlepins

Candlepin \Can`dle*pin`\, n. (Tenpins)

  1. A form of bowling pin slender and nearly straight like a candle.

  2. The game played with such pins; -- in form candlepins, used as a singular.

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candlepins

n. (plural of candlepin English)

WordNet
candlepins

n. a bowling game using slender bowling pins [syn: candlepin bowling]

Usage examples of "candlepins".

The road took them past a traffic island, past the rickety Porterville Rec Center with its five lanes of candlepins, past a dead black Government Sales building with a large MAY IS CONFIRMYOURSEX MONTH sign in the window.

But as the nasal whips curled and snapped at her, a stream of depleted-transuranic slugs the size of candlepins hit them.

The road took them past a traffic island, past the rickety Porterville Rec Center with its five lanes of candlepins, past a dead black Government Sales building with a large MAY IS CONFIRM-YOUR-SEX MONTH sign in the window.

The road took them past a traffic island, past the rickety Porterville Rec Center with its five lanes of candlepins, past a dead black Government Sales build­ing with a large MAY IS CONFIRM‑YOUR‑SEX MONTH sign in the window.