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duckpin
[
duhk
-pin]
/ˈdʌkˌpɪn/
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noun
1.
Bowling.
a short pin of relatively large diameter, used in a game resembling tenpins, and bowled at with small balls.
2.
duckpins,
(
used with a singular verb
) the game played with such pins.
Origin of
duckpin
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1905-1910
First recorded in
1905-10;
so called from the pin's resemblance to the shape of a duck
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