Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun candlepins

1 sense of candlepins

Sense 1
candlepins, candlepin bowling -- (a bowling game using slender bowling pins)
       => bowling -- (a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun candlepin

1 sense of candlepin

Sense 1
candlepin -- (a bowling pin that is thin by comparison with a tenpin)
       => bowling pin, pin -- (a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target)