bowl game

noun

Etymology

From bowl + game. Sense 2 (“postseason college football competition”) is derived from the Rose Bowl Game, played in the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California, which is named for the bowl-shaped Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.

  1. derived from *men-
  2. inherited from *gamaną
  3. inherited from *gaman
  4. inherited from gamen
  5. inherited from game
  6. compounded as bowl game — “bowl + game

Definitions

  1. A Native American game of chance involving the throwing of colored nuts from a bowl,…

    A Native American game of chance involving the throwing of colored nuts from a bowl, comparable to dice.

  2. A postseason college football competition.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA