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Noun (plural)
/bōlz/,
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bowls, plural;
  1. Tenpin bowling or skittles

  1. lawn bowling: a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
  2. (bowl) a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids;
  3. (bowl) roll (a ball)
  4. (bowl) a concave shape with an open top
  5. (bowl) hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end
  6. (bowl) engage in the sport of bowling; "My parents like to bowl on Friday nights"
  7. Bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll slightly asymmetric balls, called bowls, so that they stop close to a smaller—normally white—bowl called the "jack" or "kitty". Bowls, either flat- or -green, is usually played outdoors, on grass and synthetic surfaces. ...
  8. (Bowl (smoking)) A bowl, when referred to in drug subculture, can mean three things that differ according to region and personal taste. Many exclusively refer to "bowl" as meaning the indented or 'bowl-shaped' part of a smoking instrument. ...
  9. (Bowl (vessel)) A bowl is a common open-top container used in many cultures to serve food, and is also used for drinking and storing other items. They are typically small and shallow, although some, such as punch bowls and salad bowls, are larger and often intended to serve many people.
  10. (The Bowl (Chief)) The Bowl (Also Chief Bowles, Cherokee: Di'wali) was one of the leaders of the Cherokee hostile to the United States of America during the Chickamauga wars, under Dragging Canoe and later John Watts. ...
  11. (The Bowl (Ramsey)) The King George V Bowl (commonly known as The Bowl) is a multi-use stadium in Douglas, Isle of Man. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home of the Isle of Man national football team. The stadium has a capacity of about 3,000.
  12. (The Bowl (Utah vs. New Mexico)) The Bowl is a casual nickname given to the annual college football game between the University of Utah and the University of New Mexico. The name arose at a time when Utah had lost four of the previous five meetings against New Mexico. ...
  13. A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do; A ball used in the game of bowls
  14. (bowl) A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items; As much as is held by a bowl; A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape; A round crater (or similar) in the ground; The ...
  15. (bowl) (1) the exterior shell of an expansion ring type coupling; (2) the larger internal diameter of the internal portion of a ferrule.
  16. (Bowl) Water-containing receptor which receives liquid and solid body waste; two general bowl classifications are round front and elongated.
  17. (Bowl) A device that fits in the rotary table or wellhead to hold the wedges or slips that support a string of drill pipe casing or tubing while tripping in or out of the hole
  18. (Bowl) The generally round or elliptical forms which are the basic body shape of letters such as (uppercase) C, G, O, and (lowercase) b, c, e, o, and p. Similar to the space known as an "eye".
  19. (Bowl) One of the seven horoscope patterns identified by the late Marc Edmund Jones according to the picture formed by planetary distribution in a horoscope. All ten planets placed in approximately one-half of a horoscope indicate the Bowl. ...
  20. A bowl is the curved part of a letter that encloses a counter.
  21. (Bowl) Can refer either to the part of a piece that holds cannabis, or to the pipe itself.
  22. (Bowl) The round or elliptical element of a character, as in C G O b d q p.
  23. (Bowl) A shallow spot in the path of the wave, causing the wave to break a little harder.
  24. (BOWL) The curved green-water section of the wave, closest to the white water.
  25. (Bowl (vertical turbine pump)) the casing of one stage a multi-stage vertical turbine pump.