keglern.
/ˈkɛɡlə/, /ˈkeɪɡlə/, U.S. /ˈkɛɡlər/ North American.
One who plays tenpin bowling, skittles, ninepins, etc.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > player
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1932 Lincoln (Nebraska) State Jrnl. 9 Mar. Floyd Olds..began calling the pin topplers, keglers, and the folk in Cleveland began looking at him askance.
1943 J. Falcaro & M. Goodman Bowling for All vii. 28 The kegler who feels that he has a 300 game..will discover that every delivery gets tougher after that.
1956 Wall St. Jrnl. 22 Mar. 1/1 These sportsmen and women, known to each other as ‘keglers’, will spend about $250 million on their sport, 10 times as much as both major baseball leagues collected in a gate receipts last year.
1958 Economist 20 Dec. 1085/1 If the ‘keggler’ does not knock down all the pins with his two balls he is credited merely with the number of pins he does knock over.
1970 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 Apr. 15/2 The Kokomo, Ind., kegler beat Dick Ritger, of Hartford, Wis., in the championship [bowling] match.
1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 27 Oct. 12-C/5 In match play, each kegler faces each other one time, with the winner of a contest receiving 30 bonus pins.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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