ninepin


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a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles

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Apparently, they don't like being held up as our children are shepherded across the road - preferring, perhaps, to scatter them like ninepins. There are some things I would like to say to these yobs, but this is a family newspaper.
This time it has been the aristocrats of the soccer world dropping like ninepins. First it was France, then Argentina who were peremptorily dismissed from the World Cup.
Where wickets were falling like ninepins on day one (18 of them, in fact), chiefly due to the way the ball was swinging now say the sages, and after Sussex spent most of day two piling up the runs, yesterday was even more difficult to call.
Okay, my rivals were falling like ninepins but the fences are there to be jumped.
SEEDS have been falling like ninepins during the last few days of the World Indoor Championships at Potters but Ireland's Jonathan Ross, ranked 13, can buck the trend tonight when he faces Steve Glasson, writes Ron Wyllie.
5WHICH indoor game was devised in the U.S in the last century to circumvent a law banning ninepins, which had been taken over by gamblers and gangsters?
They're still going down like ninepins elsewhere, of course.
Roxy remains fiercely partisan and is as disappointed as any that British clubs are going down like ninepins.
Your top horses are also top horses when tried in the States, just like Morley Street, All Gong, Ninepins and others have proved.
With no warning his Fiat darted out, scattering kids like ninepins while he waved his fist.
And that's just as well for Scotland, because his countrymen fell like ninepins yesterday.
There were 23 runners and they went down like ninepins. My horse was one of the three that survived, but I knew I didn't have the nerve for race-riding and eventually it gave me up."
Big companies such as America's Enron have gone to the wall while small firms like dotcoms fell down like ninepins last year.
IIrish Derby 2: Unfortunately they're falling like ninepins in the Shelbourne Classic for Paul Hennessy.
Five - the Athelstonesward, Euchreist, Ninepins, Rolling Stocks and TM - have won twice.