Definitions for ninepins

ninepins nine·pins

Spelling: [nahyn-pinz]
IPA: /ˈnaɪnˌpɪnz/

Ninepins is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in ninepins (eiinnnps).

Definitions for ninepins

noun

  1. (used with a singular verb) tenpins played without the head pin.
  2. ninepin, a pin used in this game.

Origin of ninepins

1570-80; nine + pins

Examples for ninepins

The Indians fell like ninepins, but there were always more to come on.

So thought not the City Guard, four of whom went down like ninepins.

Had any one had the courage to do so, they would have gone down like a row of ninepins.

What a shindy you have made, bowling us all down like ninepins!

Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they.

Peter was silently appointed to set up the ninepins for them.

Margaret hunted about in the attic, and found a box of ninepins.

You will find no playing at bowls or ninepins here, as you probably imagine.

But our fire was too much for them; they fell like a row of ninepins.

Treat men as pawns and ninepins, and you shall suffer as well as they.

Word Value for ninepins
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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