bowl game

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bowl game

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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.

noun bowl games

historical A Native American game of chance involving the throwing of colored nuts from a bowl, comparable to dice.
Similar: hubbub
US A postseason college football competition.
Similar: bowl

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@misc{bowl_game_2026,
  title = {bowl game},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bowl%20game},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}