(n. pl.) A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The police then opened fire with sub-machine-guns, Sten guns, and rifles, and eye-witnesses said that the front ranks of the crowd fell like ninepins.
(2) A new study has come up with a possible explanation, suggesting that the break-up of relationships within groups of friends is contagious – one couple within a social group divorces and their friends' relationships collapse around them like ninepins.
(3) 4.00pm BST We now run from the interview room and clean across the All England club grounds - knocking officials and spectators like ninepins - to return to court No1, where the third set is boiling between Novak Djokovic and Marin Cilic.