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Skittles

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n. Plural form of skittle.

n. a pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible

n. An informal form of chess played without a clock

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

noun-plural. An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins

Word Usage

"My French daughter-in-law was struck on the head by a homemade bowling ball (as in skittles) as she lay on the grass innocently making daisy chains."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

bowling

Cross Reference

ninepins tenpin bowling

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

acquittals belittles kittles vittles