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spare balls

spare balls is the plural of spare ball.

Meaning of spare ball

Noun

spare ball (plural spare balls)

  1. (tenpin bowling) The situation where all ten pins are knocked down with the second throw in a frame. The points scored by the next ball rolled (in the next frame) are added to the spare's frame's score.

Questions about spare balls

What is spare balls the plural of?
Spare balls is the plural of spare ball.

Words near spare balls in the dictionary

  1. sparbling
  2. sparce
  3. spare
  4. spare a thought for
  5. spare ball
  6. spare balls
  7. spare change
  8. spare no effort
  9. spare no expense
  10. spare part
  11. spare parts

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