open frame

1. 1.

   any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare

   “the break in the eighth frame cost him the match”

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Questions about open frame

What does open frame mean?

open frame means "any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare".

What is another word for open frame?

Close synonyms include break. 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 open frame a common word?

open frame 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.