ninepin
n
1 ninepins [sing v]
game in which a ball is rolled along the floor at nine bottle-shaped blocks of wood in order to knock them down 九柱地滾球(沿地面滾球撞擊九根瓶狀木柱的游戲). Cf 參看 skittle, tenpin bowling.
2 [C] any of these blocks of wood (九柱地滾球的)瓶狀木柱.
3 (idm習(xí)語(yǔ)) ,go down like `ninepins fall or be knocked over, etc in great numbers (大量地)倒下, 打翻
There's a lot of flu about people are going down (ie catching the disease) like ninepins. 流感正在蔓延--傳染的人越來(lái)越多.