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Skittles

Skittles

1 3.0
Small colorful fruit-flavored chewy candies sold in bags
  • proper noun
  • /ˈskɪtəlz/
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  • I, I forgot to count how many Skittles were in the package.

So should I be able to do this with Skittles or French fries or Oreo cookies?

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Examples

  • Next up, let's say, I mean, Skittles taste the rainbow, right?

  • Have you ever had so many sour Skittles that it, like, chemically burns your tongue?

  • And then because my kids want their red Skittles, OK, but but you know what?

  • Already I thought all Skittles were white inside, but it seems not.

  • It's like, if it's not Skittles, then it's coffee.

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  • So you take some Skittles and the plate make a design.

  • I seen they go Skittles eating hot Cheetos.

  • I'm obsessed with these pomegranate licorice and I have these like sour kind of Skittles, coke bottles and sour Peaches.

  • I handed my friend a bag of Skittles at the movie theater, and she immediately started to enjoy them.

  • During the party, the children all gathered around the table to share a colorful bowl of Skittles.

Synonyms

candy
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  • US
863 1.0

A small sweet made from sugar, often with chocolate or nuts

refers to a single brand of small colorful fruit flavored chewy treats

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Skittles can be remembered by the old game skittles, where people knock down small wooden pins called 'skittles'. A helpful way to remember the candy name is to think of many small pieces like those pins, which fits the small, colorful sweets.