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tenpins

tenpins noun: a game, a form of bowling, played with ten pins as the target. Also the plural of tenpin.

Noun

tenpins (uncountable)

  1. A game, a form of bowling, played with ten pins as the target.

Also used as

tenpins is also the plural of tenpin.

Origin of tenpins

From ten + pins.

Questions about tenpins

What does tenpins mean?
Tenpins means a game, a form of bowling, played with ten pins as the target.
What part of speech is tenpins?
Tenpins is a noun.

Words near tenpins in the dictionary

  1. tenpercentery
  2. tenpin
  3. tenpin bowling
  4. tenpinner
  5. tenpinners
  6. tenpins
  7. tenplex
  8. tenplexes
  9. tenpounder
  10. tenpounders
  11. tenpura

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