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Definition of Headpin
1. Noun. The front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins.
Definition of Headpin
1. Noun. The kingpin (in ten-pin bowling). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Headpin
1. a bowling pin [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headpin
Literary usage of Headpin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Asymmetric Marketing: Tossing the 'Chasm' in the Age of the Software Superpowers by Joseph E. Bentzel (2006)
"But in the real world of software sales, isn't it more likely that you will pick
the wrong headpin as your starting point if all you have to go on is 'a ..."
2. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Baretti (1851)
"Women's headpin, bodkin. RASCAR, re. 1. To scratch, to scrape. 2. To •eize an
opportunity, not to miss a favourable occasion. Un asno rasca á otro, ..."
3. American Negligence Cases: A Complete Collection of All Reported Negligence by Theodore Frank Hamilton, Walter James Eagle (1905)
"... directed the and the headpin in the drawbar on said servant to use the horse,
whereby the car, judgment for plaintiff in the said servant was injured, ..."
4. A dictionary of the Spanish and English languages, orig. compiled by Neuman by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio Baretti (1862)
"Women's headpin, bodkin. Rascar, t'íi. To scratch, to scrape. Nú descuidarse en
el rascar, Not to miss any opportunity of doing what one wants or wishes ..."
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