A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling / (New England) Candlepin bowling.

simple past tense and past participle of bowl

(cricket) (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.

plural of bowle

plural of bowl

A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bowl

A quantity of a recreational drug sufficient to fill the bowl of a small pipe used to smoke it.

Part of a traditional tea set, used to empty the cold tea and dregs in tea cups before refilling with hot tea. Usually pottery or silver.

(hairstyling) A haircut where the hair is cut short on the sides and back and allowed to grow long on the top, as though only the hair not covered by an inverted bowl had been removed.