| bowling alley | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a long narrow wooden lane down which the ball is rolled in tenpin bowling |
| b. a similar lane or alley, usually with raised sides, for playing skittles (ninepins) | |
| 2. | a building having several lanes for tenpin bowling |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |