Definition of "headpin" []

• Sports The foremost pin in an arrangement of bowling pins. Also called kingpin. (noun)

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• "This time Brad Angelo and Chris Barnes got into a little tete-a-tete over Angelo's inability to throw a strike on the right side of the headpin."
• "I was all over the headpin in my third game, and I didn't break 100."
• "I thought mine needed a little something extra, so I found a garnet bead that was part of an earring whose mate Alissa had lost and I attached it to the necklace with a wonderful gold headpin I bought from"