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- noun Plural form of
duckpin . - noun A
game , played bybowling a smallball at suchpins
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- noun a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider
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Examples
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The object is to clear opponents out of the way while you knock down two of their duckpins that sit at the far end of the court.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010
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He courted his wife over duckpins and also played trumpet in a swing combo, the Southland Five, until the mid-1960s.
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Yours had better be pristine when I hop into your passenger seat, or I won't go bowl duckpins with you, no sirree.
Click It or Ticket Anne Johnson 2007
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Yours had better be pristine when I hop into your passenger seat, or I won't go bowl duckpins with you, no sirree.
Archive 2007-04-01 Anne Johnson 2007
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I want to call them duckpins, but I'm not sure they're even fat enough to qualify.
The next excerpt in a theoretically infinite series shunn 2001
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I want to call them duckpins, but I'm not sure they're even fat enough to qualify.
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Tonight, diminished expectations combined with Palin's known-to-be-remarkable charisma made for the speech-making equivalent of putting a champ bowler two feet in front of a set of plastic duckpins.
The Garlic 2008
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Tonight, diminished expectations combined with Palin's known-to-be-remarkable charisma made for the speech-making equivalent of putting a champ bowler two feet in front of a set of plastic duckpins.
The Garlic 2008
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Tonight, diminished expectations combined with Palin's known-to-be-remarkable charisma made for the speech-making equivalent of putting a champ bowler two feet in front of a set of plastic duckpins.
The Garlic 2008
qroqqa commented on the word duckpins
My father never held a tennis racket or a golf club, and he couldn't kick a football or catch a swift pitch, but he bowled whenever he got a chance – tenpins, duckpins, candlepins, cocked hat, and quintet, a difficult game, the rules for which I was told he had helped to make up.
—James Thurber, 1952, 'Gentleman from Indiana', in The Thurber Album
July 14, 2008