WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
duck•pin
(duk′pin′),USA pronunciation n.
- Sport[Bowling.]a short pin of relatively large diameter, used in a game resembling tenpins, and bowled at with small balls.
- Sport duckpins, (used with a sing. v.) the game played with such pins.
- so called from the pin's resemblance to the shape of a duck 1905–10
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