Skittle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A British form of ninepins, in which a wooden disk or ball is thrown to knock down the pins.
  • n. One of the pins used in skittles.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. one of the wooden targets used in skittles
  • v. To play skittles.
  • v. To beat comprehensively.
  • v. To use as a recreational drug a certain over-the-counter cough medication that is taken orally and whose tablets are said to resemble Skittles.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to the game of skittles.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One of the pins used in the game of skittles.
  • n. plural A game played with nine pins set upright at one end of an alley, the object of the player stationed at the other end being to knock over the set of pins with as few throws as possible of a large roundish ball.
  • To knock over with a skittle-ball; knock down; bowl off.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. play skittles
  • n. a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bowl    pin    bowling pin   
    Cross Reference
    bowling   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    acquittal    belittle    bittle    brittle    committal    kittel    kittle    knittle    little    noncommittal   
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