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cosmic bowling

cosmic bowling noun: an event at a bowling alley where the bowling takes place under special illumination, with lasers, music, etc.

Noun

cosmic bowling (uncountable)

  1. An event at a bowling alley where the bowling takes place under special illumination, with lasers, music, etc.
    • For the uninitiated, cosmic bowling popped up on the west coast about a year ago and has slowly made its way east. It offers customers a chance to knock down a few pins in a jumping nightclub atmosphere.1998, Funworld, volume 14, page 96
    • Faced with a 40 percent decline in league bowling (the primary source of bowling center revenues and profits), Brunswick developed the Cosmic Bowling concept to attract young people to its centers. The target market for cosmic bowling is Generation Yers and Xers, people in the 18-to-34 demographic...2001, Michael Levy, Barton A. Weitz, Retailing Management, page 197

Examples of cosmic bowling in a sentence

  • Faced with a 40 percent decline in league bowling (the primary source of bowling center revenues and profits), Brunswick developed the Cosmic Bowling concept to attract young people to its centers.2001, Michael Levy, Barton A. Weitz, Retailing Management, page 197:
  • All of them rent shoes, and most offer cosmic bowling, so you can play under wild, psychedelic lights during set hours.2008, Rebecca Finlayson, Insiders' Guide® to Memphis, page 192:

Origin of cosmic bowling

Introduced as a trademark of Brunswick Corp.

Questions about cosmic bowling

What does cosmic bowling mean?
Cosmic bowling means an event at a bowling alley where the bowling takes place under special illumination, with lasers, music, etc.
How do you use cosmic bowling in a sentence?
Faced with a 40 percent decline in league bowling (the primary source of bowling center revenues and profits), Brunswick developed the Cosmic Bowling concept to attract young people to its centers.
What part of speech is cosmic bowling?
Cosmic bowling is a noun.

Words near cosmic bowling in the dictionary

  1. cosmian
  2. cosmians
  3. cosmic
  4. cosmic background
  5. cosmic background radiation
  6. cosmic bowling
  7. cosmic calendar
  8. cosmic calendars
  9. cosmic censorship
  10. cosmic censorship hypotheses
  11. cosmic censorship hypothesis

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