Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A smooth, level wooden lane used in bowling.
- n. A building or room containing lanes for bowling.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A covered place for the game of bowls, provided with a passage or alley of smooth planking on which to roll the balls. See ninepins.
Wiktionary
- n. A building which contains lanes for bowling.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins
- n. a building that contains several alleys for bowling
Examples
“I talked about Albuquerque, bowling alley etiquette, Los Alamos-grown cockroaches, and walk-ups in decidedly bad neighborhoods”
“And between 1973 and 1987, her parents had owned and operated a family business called Anderson Lanes, a bowling alley with a bar and restaurant on Northland Avenue, which ran along the north side of the 858 East Ferry lot.”
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COLLOCATIONS - B
English collocations beginning with the letter 'B'.
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candles with a "manly" scent
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treeseed In the U.S., an establishment where individuals and teams go to play the sport of ten-pin bowling. Usually has a bar and snack-bar as well as pool tables and pin ball machines. Feb 3, 2008