Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The foremost pin in an arrangement of bowling pins.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bowling) The front pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
kingpin (in ten-pin bowling).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins
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Examples
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This time Brad Angelo and Chris Barnes got into a little tete-a-tete over Angelo's inability to throw a strike on the right side of the headpin.
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This time Brad Angelo and Chris Barnes got into a little tete-a-tete over Angelo's inability to throw a strike on the right side of the headpin.
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This time Brad Angelo and Chris Barnes got into a little tete-a-tete over Angelo's inability to throw a strike on the right side of the headpin.
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This time Brad Angelo and Chris Barnes got into a little tete-a-tete over Angelo's inability to throw a strike on the right side of the headpin.
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I was all over the headpin in my third game, and I didn't break 100.
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I thought mine needed a little something extra, so I found a garnet bead that was part of an earring whose mate Alissa had lost and I attached it to the necklace with a wonderful gold headpin I bought from
Design*Sponge 2009
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Kingpin The kingpin (or 1-pin or headpin) is the most important pin in the starting array because its action influences that of all the other pins.
hernesheir commented on the word headpin
kingpin
March 20, 2011