candlepin bowling

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   a bowling game using slender bowling pins

   Synonymscandlepins

   Broaderbowling

Questions about candlepin bowling

What does candlepin bowling mean?

candlepin bowling means "a bowling game using slender bowling pins".

What is another word for candlepin bowling?

Close synonyms include candlepins. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is candlepin bowling a common word?

candlepin bowling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.