| cocked hat | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a hat with opposing brims turned up and caught together in order to give two points (bicorn) or three points (tricorn) |
| 2. | slang knock into a cocked hat to outdo or defeat |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
cocked hat
bowling game played on a standard tenpin lane with three tenpins and a duckpin ball (4-5 inches [10-12.5 cm] in diameter). The pins are set 36 inches apart at the three corners of a normal tenpin formation. Two balls are allowed per frame, and scoring is as in tenpin bowling, except that 3 instead of 10 plus the total felled with the next two balls is the maximum score per frame. Thus, a perfect game is 90 instead of 300
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