bowl : Idioms & Phrases

• verb cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
  turn over; tip over; tump over; upset; knock over; overturn.
  
  • The cat knocked over the flower vase
  • the clumsy customer turned over the vase
  • he tumped over his beer
• verb overcome with amazement
  boggle; flabbergast.
  
  • This boggles the mind!

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Bowl"-legged` adjective

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1. Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward. Johnson.

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• adjective satellite having a concave shape with an open top like a bowl
  

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• noun a building that contains several alleys for bowling
  
• noun a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins
  skittle alley; alley.
  

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• noun a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling
  bowl.
  

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• noun equipment used in bowling
  

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• noun a town in southern Kentucky
  
• noun a field of closely mowed turf for playing bowls
  

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• noun a league of bowling teams
  

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• noun a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
  pin.
  

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• noun the score in a bowling match
  

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• noun a special shoe worn when bowling
  

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• noun a bowling game using slender bowling pins
  candlepins.
  

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• noun a bowl for holding breakfast cereal
  

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• noun a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s
  

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• a bowl or glass to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.

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• noun small bowl for rinsing the fingers at table
  

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• noun a state of affairs in which you have no privacy
  fish bowl; fishbowl.
  
  • the president lives in a goldfish bowl
• noun a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept
  fish bowl; fishbowl.
  

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• noun a state of affairs in which you have no privacy
  fish bowl; fishbowl.
  
  • the president lives in a goldfish bowl
• noun a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept
  fish bowl; fishbowl.
  

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• noun a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
  bowls.
  

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• noun bowl used with an electric mixer
  

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• noun a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco
  bowl.
  

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• noun a large bowl for serving beverages; usually with a ladle
  

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• a large bowl in which punch is made, or from which it is served.

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• noun a plate or bowl for individual servings of salad
  salad plate.
  
• noun a large bowl for mixing and serving a salad
  

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• a basin or bowl for holding slops, especially for receiving the rinsings of tea or coffee cups at the table.

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• noun a bowl into which the dregs of teacups and coffee cups are emptied at the table
  slop basin.
  

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• noun a bowl for serving soup
  

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• noun a dish in which sugar is served
  

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• noun bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins
  tenpins.
  

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• in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.

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• (Game of Bowls), to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned.

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• noun the bowl of a toilet that can be flushed with water
  

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• a bowl in which wassail was mixed, and placed upon the table. "Spiced wassail bowl." J. Fletcher. "When the cloth was removed, the butler brought in a huge silver vessel . . . Its appearance was hailed with acclamation, being the wassail bowl so renowned in Christmas festivity." W. Irving.

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