cocked hat

cocked hat
1. a man's hat, worn esp. in the 18th century, having a wide, stiff brim turned up on two or three sides toward a peaked crown. Cf. bicorne, tricorne.
2. knock into a cocked hat, Informal. to destroy completely; render unachievable.
[1665-75; COCK2 + -ED2]

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      bowling game played on a standard tenpin lane with three tenpins and a duckpin ball (4–5 inches [10–12.5 cm] in diameter). The pins are set 36 inches apart at the three corners of a normal tenpin formation. Two balls are allowed per frame, and scoring is as in tenpin bowling, except that 3 instead of 10 plus the total felled with the next two balls is the maximum score per frame. Thus, a perfect game is 90 instead of 300.

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