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noun
1.
a rather deep, round dish or basin, used chiefly for holding liquids, food, etc.
2.
the contents of a bowl: a bowl of tomato soup.
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a rounded, cuplike, hollow part: the bowl of a pipe.
4.
a large drinking cup.
5.
EXPANDfestive drinking; conviviality.
6.
any bowl-shaped depression or formation.
7.
an edifice with tiers of seats forming sides like those of a bowl, having the arena at the bottom; stadium.
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Also called bowl game. a football game played after the regular season by teams selected by the sponsors of the game, usually as representing the best from a region of the country: the Rose Bowl.
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COLLAPSEverb (used with object)
10.
to give (a floor) a gentle inclination on all sides toward some area, as a stage or platform.
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Bowled
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Related forms
bowl·like, adjective
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noun
1.
one of the balls, having little or no bias, used in playing ninepins or tenpins.
2.
one of the biased or weighted balls used in lawn bowling.
3.
4.
a delivery of the ball in bowling or lawn bowling.
5.
(formerly) a rotating cylindrical part in a machine, as one to reduce friction.
verb (used without object)
7.
to roll a bowl or ball.
8.
to move along smoothly and rapidly.
9.
Cricket. to deliver the ball to be played by the batsman.
verb (used with object)
Verb phrase10.
to roll or trundle, as a ball or hoop.
11.
to attain by bowling: He bowls a good game. She usually bowls a 120 game, but today she bowled 180.
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13.
to carry or convey, as in a wheeled vehicle.
14.
Cricket. to eliminate (a batsman) by bowling (usually followed by out): He was bowled for a duck. He was bowled out for a duck.
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bowl over, to surprise greatly: We were bowled over by the news.
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Word Origin & History
bowl
O.E. bolla "pot, cup, bowl," from P.Gmc. *bul- "a round vessel" (cf. O.N. bolle, O.H.G. bolla), from PIE *bhl-, from base *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell" (see bole).
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Slang Dictionary
bowl definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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