ninepins

The result was rather bad for the Turks; they went down like a lot of ninepins before Mole's railway-like progression.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks|Bracebridge Hemyng
Three Brazilians went down like ninepins; the rest turned and fled precipitately.
Martin Rattler|R.M. Ballantyne
Tom Richardson, the last man in for England, made sixty-two, while some who shall be nameless went down like ninepins in the van.
Witching Hill|E. W. Hornung
Russian fortresses continued for another month to fall like ninepins before the Austro-German armies.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia|Various

To quote one of our Fusiliers, "they fell like ninepins" at each discharge.
Dixmude|Charles Le Goffic

British Dictionary definitions for ninepins

ninepins

/ (ˈnaɪnˌpɪnz) /

noun

(functioning as singular) another name for skittlesSee skittle (def. 2)

(singular) one of the pins used in this game

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