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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A smooth, level wooden lane used in bowling.
  2. n. A building or room containing lanes for bowling.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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

  1. n. A building which contains lanes for bowling.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins
  2. 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”

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  • “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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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. bowl-alley
  2. skittles
  3. ninepins
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  2. runway
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  2. bowl
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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

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