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skittle

1 8.1

A small wooden pin used as the target in a game like bowling

noun
/ˈskɪtəl/

: birlo

During the party, we set up a game with colorful skittles that everyone enjoyed.

He come up, he bat me dad with a skittle Mum jumped out of bed screaming.

Examples

At the fair, I watched as a player knocked over the skittle with a perfectly thrown ball.
Have a Skittle, brother.

Code Name: The Cleaner (2007)
At the time of his death, Martin had nothing on his person but his cellphone, an Arizona watermelon soda, a bag of Skittles, $40.15 in cash, a cigarette lighter, and some headphones.

Academic text (2017)
Martin had nothing on his person but his cellphone, an Arizona watermelon soda, a bag of Skittles, $40.15 in cash, a cigarette lighter, and some headphones.

Academic text (2017)
Indeed, when Martin left his father's girlfriend's townhome within the Retreat at Twin Lakes on the evening of February 26, 2012, he departed, in part, to get her 14-year-old son Chad a bag of Skittles.

Academic text (2017)
The children took turns aiming their balls at the skittle standing at the end of the lane.

Synonyms

vsskittle

19 1.3

A wooden object shaped like a club set up to be knocked down in bowling

is a specific small target used in a particular game not a general object

ninepin

vsskittle

1 8.8

A wooden pin in a game like bowling that players knock down

is the common small wooden target name rather than this regional game term

Kegel

vsskittle

1 9.5

A wooden pin used in a game like bowling

is the English small target term rather than the continental name

skittle pin

vsskittle

1 6.8

A small wooden target that players knock down in the game of skittles

is the simpler common English name for that same small target

Compounds

skittle alley

1 7.0

A long narrow lane where people roll a ball to knock down pins

skittle pin

1 6.8

A small wooden target that players knock down in the game of skittles

titty skittle

Slang

9.9

A small colorful candy that is flat and round

skittle ball

6.9

A ball rolled in the game of skittles to knock down pins

Surface Forms

skittle singular

skittles plural

Etymology

Skittle comes from an old word meaning 'a small stick' or 'something thrown', so imagine a little wooden pin you aim at with a ball; that is why each target is called a skittle.