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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tenpin
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tenpin bowling
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was almost without shoulders, reminding Shamlou of a tenpin skittle.
▪ Prince Edward was in Swindon to see Handicapped youngsters playing tenpin bowling and he had a crack himself.
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tenpin

n. Any of the bottle-shaped targets used in tenpin bowling.

WordNet
tenpin

n. one of the bottle-shaped pins used in bowling

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Tenpin

Tenpin is one of the UK’s largest tenpin bowling brands. With over 30 bowling centres nationwide all accommodating amusement arcades (including the latest Bandai Namco games titles), soft play areas, Sector 7 Laser Tag, American pool, Table Tennis, Air Hockey with restaurants and bars. Bowling can be purchased per game, or as part of a Birthday party or corporate event package. It can also be booked in advance from the Tenpin website: www.tenpin.co.uk

The brand launched in 2003 and is a popular destination for socialising, parties and special events.

Cosmic Bowl, which is available at most venues, takes place some evenings (generally weekends) or as a private booking request. It turns the lanes into a ‘glow in the dark’ bowling occasion, complete with commercial dance music and a nightclub-like ambience. Lanes with ramps and bumpers for beginners are also available at all venues.

Tenpin is a member of the Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association (TBPA). Many Tenpin sites are also used as venues for local and national ten-pin league competitions.

Usage examples of "tenpin".

Both are art, just as billiards and pool and duckpins and tenpins are all valid sports, and both accomplish different and equally important ends.

You jump then, inside that firetailed tenpin they ride you down in, but the straps keep you from making a fool of yourself.

In the earlier dreams, I contented myself with exploring these incredible cities, attempting to measure their angles -- so utterly dissimilar to anything I had ever learned from Professor Wogglebug's geometry pills -- and occasionally trying to lay out baseball diamonds and football fields for the perpetually unseen inhabitants, or to set up curiously-shaped stones in the formation of tenpins, which invariably toppled down because of the peculiar tilt of the ground long before I could bowl them over with the black cinder-like spheroids that sometimes lay about.