skittle
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- noun
- /ˈskɪtəl/
- UK
:
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.
- He come up, he bat me dad with a skittle Mum jumped out of bed screaming.
Examples
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At the fair, I watched as a player knocked over the skittle with a perfectly thrown ball.
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Have a Skittle, brother.
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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.
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The children took turns aiming their balls at the skittle standing at the end of the lane.
Synonyms
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A wooden object shaped like a club set up to be knocked down in bowling
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A wooden pin in a game like bowling that players knock down
A small wooden target that players knock down in the game of skittles
A wooden pin used in a game like bowling
Compounds
Surface Forms
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.