1. any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare; - Example: "the break in the eighth frame cost him the match" [syn: open frame, break]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
open frame
n 1: any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or
spare; "the break in the eighth frame cost him the match"
[syn: open frame, break]