1. A wooden club about 15 inches tall, slim at the neck and swelling to its widest at the belly, set up in tens to be knocked down by a ball.
2.colloq. Built narrow up top and wide where it counts. Ten of them stand hip to hip at the end of every lane, and the ball still has to come to them.
In a sentence:
"Ten thiccc bowling pins, all hips, waiting at the end of lane six. Nobody strikes against that much confidence on the first try."
Etymology:
From bowl (Old French boule, a ball, from Latin bulla, a bubble) + pin (Old English pinn, a peg). A peg, by name. Nobody who has seen the bottom half believes it.
Not 'swelling.' The widest point is a documented measurement of 15 inches in height with maximum girth below the neck. The shape is on record. Admitted.
Yes. Bowling Pin was admitted to the Thiccctionary on October 10, 2026 and filed in the Domestic Goods section. The ruling on file: Admitted, with a footnote. Every subject in the catalogue is judged on its curves, not its size.
What makes a bowling pin thiccc?
Built narrow up top and wide where it counts. Ten of them stand hip to hip at the end of every lane, and the ball still has to come to them.
Is "thiccc" spelled with three c's?
Yes. The Thiccctionary house spelling uses three c's, distinguishing the editorial register from the colloquial "thicc" (two c's) and standard "thick" (one c).
