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bowling alley

nounB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A bowling alley is the hall of long lanes where you roll balls at pins. Meet at the bowling alley.

The lanes are oiled in a pattern you cannot see, and it changes how the ball turns. A bowling alley used to employ boys to set the pins up by hand.

Artist producing drawing for American Sports Publishing Company, 1892 · Public domain

Definitions of bowling alley

  1. 1nounbowling alleyThe hall of long lanes where you roll balls at pins.B1

    “The bowling alley was the only thing open after ten.”

bowling alley is a place.

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