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ninepins

ninepins noun: the game of skittles. Also the plural of ninepin.

Noun

ninepins

  1. The game of skittles.
    • On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at nine-pins.1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rip Van Winkle”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page...

Also used as

ninepins is also the plural of ninepin.

Questions about ninepins

What does ninepins mean?
Ninepins means the game of skittles.
What part of speech is ninepins?
Ninepins is a noun.

Words near ninepins in the dictionary

  1. ninepennies
  2. ninepenny
  3. ninepin
  4. ninepin bowl
  5. ninepin bowls
  6. ninepins
  7. nineplex
  8. nineplexes
  9. niner
  10. niners
  11. nines

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