turkey

en-noun

turkey (plural turkeys or (obsolete) turkies)

turkeys (plural)
turkies (obsolete plural)
turkie (alternative obsolete)

Clipping of turkey-cock and turkey-hen (“(originally) the guinea fowl (family Numididae)”), which was imported to Europe by Turkey merchants through Turkey. The word was then applied to the larger northern American bird Meleagris gallopavo which was brought to Spain by conquistadors in 1523. This transfer of the name may have occurred because the two birds were considered similar to each other, or because the North American turkey was in part introduced through Ottoman territories, or simply to indicate that it was foreign.

like turkeys voting for an early Christmas

(countable, bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.

ターキー

(bowling) act of throwing three strikes in a row


action

action (countable and uncountable, plural actions)

→ Arabic: أَكْشِن (ʔakšin)

→ Bulgarian: екшън (ekšǎn)

→ German: Action

→ Irish: aicsean

→ Hebrew: אקשן (akshn)

→ Japanese: アクション (akushon)

→ Korean: 액션 (aeksyeon)

→ Russian: экшн (ekšn)

From Middle English accioun, accion, from Old French aucion, acciun, from Latin āctiō(n) (“act of doing or making”), from āctus + action suffix -iō(n), perfect passive participle of agere (“do, act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti; see also act, active. By surface analysis, act + -ion.


sombrero

Borrowed from Spanish sombrero (“hat”), from sombra (“shadow, shade”) + -ero, literally, "shade-maker". The drink was named after the hat.

(bowling) A series of four consecutive strikes.


lane

From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”).
Cognate with Scots lone (“cattle-track, by-road”), West Frisian leane, loane (“a walkway, avenue”), Dutch laan (“alley, avenue”), German Low German Lane, Laan (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”).

cog

We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley.

(bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.


alley

From Middle English aley, from Old French alee, feminine of alé, past participle of aler (“to go”) (French aller). Doublet of allée.

(bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.


bridge

bridges (plural)
bridg (alternative obsolete)
brigge (alternative)

From Middle English brigge, from Old English brycġ (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brugjō, *brugjǭ (“bridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrēw- (“wooden flooring, decking, bridge”).
Cognate with Scots brig, brigg, breeg (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Dutch brug (“bridge”), German Brücke (“bridge”), Danish brygge (“wharf”), Icelandic brygga (“pier”), Gaulish briua (“bridge”).
The verb is from Middle English briggen, from Old English brycġian (“to bridge, make a causeway, pave”), derived from the noun. Cognate with Dutch bruggen (“to bridge”), Middle Low German bruggen (“to bridge”), Old High German bruccōn (“to bridge”) (whence Modern German brücken).
The musical connection sense is a semantic loan from German Steg, from Old High German steg.

ацҳа

if someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it

A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.

(bowling) The gap between the holes on a bowling ball


split

→ Irish: spliota

Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Compare Middle English ysplett (“split”, past participle of splatten (“to split”)), Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Old Irish sliss (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).

cog

past participle of <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">splatten</i> (“to split”)

let the door hit you where the good Lord split you

(bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.


strike

→ Danish: strike

→ Dutch: strike

→ French: strike

→ German: Strike

→ Italian: strike

→ Japanese: ストライク (sutoraiku)

→ Korean: 스트라이크 (seuteuraikeu)

→ Portuguese: strike

→ Russian: страйк (strajk)

→ Spanish: strike

→ Swedish: strike

→ Danish: strejke

→ Esperanto: striko

→ Hungarian: sztrájk

→ Japanese: ストライキ (sutoraiki)

desctree

→ German: Streik, Strike (obsolete, 19th c.)
→ Kashubian: sztrajk
→ Macedonian: штрајк (štrajk)
→ Serbo-Croatian: štrȁjk /штра̏јк
→ Slovak: štrajk

→ Polish: strajk
→ Belarusian: страйк (strajk)
→ Ukrainian: страйк (strajk)

→ Swedish: strejk

→ Welsh: streic

From Middle English stryken, from Old English strīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan, from Proto-Germanic *strīkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”).
Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen, Danish stryge, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva.

der

(bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.


upcast

From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.

When I kissed the jack, upon an upcast to be hit away

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:


ABC

American Bowling Congress
w:American Bowling Congress

(historical, bowling) Initialism of American Bowling Congress.


hook

sometimes in Northern England and Ireland, otherwise obsolete

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian heak, Dutch haak (“hook”)) (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk); also related to hake.

However, for pins on the bowler's right, such as the 3, 6, 9, or 10, move more toward the center of the foul line if you bowl a straight ball or slightly to the left of the center of the foul line if you bowl a hook.

1969, Harold Keith, Sports and Games, page 102:

(bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.

Senses relating to sports.
A ball that is rolled in a curved line.

kierrepallo

bowling: ball that is rolled in a curved line


hook

en-verb

hook (third-person singular simple present hooks, present participle hooking, simple past and past participle hooked)

hooks (present singular third-person)
hooking (participle present)
hooked (participle past)
hooked (past)

koukata

hockey: to engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking

The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.

2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:

(soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.


loft

loft (third-person singular simple present lofts, present participle lofting, simple past and past participle lofted)

lofts (present singular third-person)
lofting (participle present)
lofted (participle past)
lofted (past)

From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”).
Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft.

der

(bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.


approach

From Middle English approche (“approach, arrival”), from approchen, aprochen (“to come or go near, approach; to adjoin, be close by; to enter (someone’s) presence; to be or become involved; to reach (a certain state); to arrive; to befall, happen to; to become similar to, resemble; to be a match for (someone)”); see etymology 1.

вход

avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached — see also access

захо́д

way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport

(bowling) The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.


messenger

From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message + -er. Doublet of messager.
Displaced native Old English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and ǣrendraca (“messenger, ambassador”).
For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).

(bowling) A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.


frame

→ Korean: 프레임 (peureim)

→ Swahili: fremu

From Middle English frame (“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also from Old Norse frami (“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); and frame (“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rare Anglo-Norman and Old French frame, fraine (“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately from Frankish *hramu (“frame”) related to Dutch raam (“window frame”).

der

(bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.

In knockemdowns and bowls ten pins are used, the centre one being called the king, and the ball has to be grounded before it reaches the frame.

1878, John Henry Walsh, British Rural Sports, page 712:

(bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.


pocket

→ Japanese: ポケット

→ Welsh: poced

From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *pokō (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *pukkô, *pukô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Equivalent to poke + -et. Doublet of pochette. Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), Old Norse poki (“bag, pocket”). Compare the related poke (“sack or bag”). See also Modern French pochette and Latin bucca.

is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me

(bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.


porter

en-noun

porter (countable and uncountable, plural porters)

→ Irish: pórtar

From Middle English porter, portere, portare, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French portier, from Late Latin portarius (“gatekeeper”), from Latin porta (“gate”).

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

(countable, bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.


foul

fouls (plural)
foule (alternative obsolete)

→ Cantonese: foul

→ Polish: faul

→ Romanian: fault

→ Russian: фол (fol)

→ Turkish: faul

Inherited from Middle English foulen, fulen, from Old English fūlian (“to become foul; rot; decay”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūlēn, from Proto-Germanic *fūlāną (“to rot; decay”).

der

(bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.


spare

From Middle English spare, spar, from Old English spær (“sparing, scant”), from Proto-Germanic *sparaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sph₁rós, from the root *speh₁-.
Compare Dutch spaar(zaam), German spar(sam) and spär(lich), Swedish spar(sam), Icelandic sparr (“sparing”); also Latin (pro)sperus (“lucky”), Old Church Slavonic споръ (sporŭ, “plentiful”), Albanian shperr (“earn money”), Persian سپار (sepâr, “entrust; deposit”), Ancient Greek σπαρνός (sparnós, “rare”), Sanskrit स्फिर (sphirá, “thick”).

cog

(bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.

(bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.


bowler

(bowling) One who engages in the sport of bowling.


gutter

Sranan Tongo: gotro

From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).

You can decide to use the bumpers to avoid the ball going down the gutter every time.

(bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.


kickback

en-noun

kickback (countable and uncountable, plural kickbacks)

kickbacks (plural)
kick-back (alternative)
kick back (alternative)

(countable, bowling) The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end.


skittle alley

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(bowling) The long narrow building in which skittles is played.


perfect game

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(bowling) A game in which the highest score possible is achieved, entailing a strike in every frame.


snake eyes

From the resemblance of the two single pips to the eyes of a snake.


burn out

en-verb

burn out (third-person singular simple present burns out, present participle burning out, simple past and past participle burned out or (mostly Commonwealth) burnt out)

burns out (present singular third-person)
burning out (participle present)
burned out (participle past)
burned out (past)
burnt out (Commonwealth participle past)
burnt out (Commonwealth past)

(intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finish strongly.


Cincinnati

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Named after the Society of the Cincinnati, which is named after Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus; see Latin Cincinnāti and Cincinnātus.

(bowling) A 7–9 or 8–10 split (result of a first throw).


lanes

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We spent every weekend down at the lanes.

(bowling, colloquial, usually in definite form) bowling alley


deadwood

en-noun

deadwood (countable and uncountable, plural deadwoods)

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(bowling) Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley.


burn up

en-verb

burn up (third-person singular simple present burns up, present participle burning up, simple past and past participle burned up or burnt up)

burns up (present singular third-person)
burning up (participle present)
burned up (participle past)
burned up (past)
burnt up (participle past)
burnt up (past)

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From burn + up. Compare Middle English upbrennynge, upbrennende (“burning up”, present participle), German Low German upbrannen (“to burn up”).

cog

(intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finishing strongly.


pinsetter

pinsetters (plural)
pin-setter (alternative)
pin setter (alternative)

“I was working as a pinsetter in a bowling alley down in Tampa.”

2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 92:

(bowling, originally) The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.

They have twelve lanes of candlepin bowling with cranky automatic pinsetters that usually take the last three days of the week off […]

(bowling) The machine that clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.


dry out

en-verb

dry out (third-person singular simple present dries out, present participle drying out, simple past and past participle dried out)

dries out (present singular third-person)
drying out (participle present)
dried out (participle past)
dried out (past)

(intransitive, bowling, of a bowling lane) To become less oily, affecting play, after being oiled up.


respot

respot (third-person singular simple present respots, present participle respotting, simple past and past participle respotted)

respots (present singular third-person)
respotting (participle present)
respotted (participle past)
respotted (past)

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Should a pin fall in removing the dead wood it must be respotted, and pins knocked over by pin or pins rebounding from any other alley must be respotted.

1928, Louise Patterson Van Sickle, Physical Education Activities for High School Girls, page 105:

The pins are respotted and the player bowls again.

1968, Donald Rex Casady, Marie Liba, Beginning bowling, page 29:

(sports, bowling) To replace a pin to its correct position prior to a player bowling.


pinfall

en-noun

pinfall (countable and uncountable, plural pinfalls)

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Allison, a member of the Bowling Hall of Fame, recently moved into ninth place for career pinfall with more than 103,000.

2007 July 1, Neil Amdur, “Bowling: Why a 900 Series Just Isn’t What It Used to Be”, in New York Times, retrieved 2008-07-14:

(bowling) The number of pins toppled by a bowler or bowling team during a game, tournament, career, or some other measured period.


roll out

en-verb

roll out (third-person singular simple present rolls out, present participle rolling out, simple past and past participle rolled out)

rolls out (present singular third-person)
rolling out (participle present)
rolled out (participle past)
rolled out (past)

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gutter ball

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(bowling) A ball that rolls into the gutter without striking any pins.


bowling ball

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(bowling) A solid ball used in the sport of bowling, with finger holes allowing it to be picked up.


ball return

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(bowling) A rack for bowling balls at the start of a bowling lane, where the balls are transported after returning from the pinsetter.


foul line

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(bowling) A line between the lane and the approach, which the bowler must not cross.


ball up

ball up (third-person singular simple present balls up, present participle balling up, simple past and past participle balled up)

balls up (present singular third-person)
balling up (participle present)
balled up (participle past)
balled up (past)

(slang, bowling, intransitive) To switch to using a stronger bowling ball.


hambone

hambones (plural)
ham-bone (alternative)

(bowling, informal) Four consecutive strikes.


match play

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(bowling) A knockout competition between two single bowlers.


candlepin

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(bowling) A kind of cylindrical tenpin used in a North American regional form of bowling.


ten-strike

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I started to tell him I warn't studying Jeff Middleton, but jest then a lot of whooping bust out in the bowling alley like somebody had made a ten-strike or something, and here come six men busting into the bar whooping and yelling and slapping one of 'em on the back.

1936, Robert E. Howard, Evil Deeds at Red Cougar:

(bowling, dated) A strike; the knocking down of all ten pins with one delivery of the ball.


7-10 split

If the pins are numbered left to right from the bottom, the remaining two pins are numbers 7 and 10.

(bowling) A split where the farthest-left and farthest-right pins are the only pins left standing.


pinsetting

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(bowling) The clearing and resetting of fallen pins in tenpin bowling.


five-pin

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(bowling) five-pin bowling (played only in Canada)


beer frame

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(bowling) A frame in which the bowler who performs worst is assigned the forfeit of buying beer for the other players.


alley ball

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(bowling) A bowling ball kept in a bowling alley, for public use.


house ball

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(bowling) A bowling ball kept in a bowling alley, for public use


pin deck

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(bowling) The section of the lane on which the pins are set.


ball down

ball down (third-person singular simple present balls down, present participle balling down, simple past and past participle balled down)

balls down (present singular third-person)
balling down (participle present)
balled down (participle past)
balled down (past)

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(slang, bowling, intransitive) To switch away from a stronger bowling ball.


gutter guard

(bowling) A rail that stops a bowling ball from rolling into the gutter, intended for children.