ninepins
- n a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins
- n a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles
- In his first few weeks in office they toppled about him like ninepins.
- The blueshirted moppets of East Germany's Communist Youth Pioneers were having fun last week at a new game: bowling down ninepins labeled "Warmonger Adenauer,".
- Conscious of her duty as the Queen of what Napoleon called a nation of shopkeepers, regal Mary last week created fresh buying interest in ninepins, now somewhat out of fashion.