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Skittles

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skit·tle  (sktl)
n.
1. skittles (used with a sing. verb) A British form of ninepins, in which a wooden disk or ball is thrown to knock down the pins.
2. One of the pins used in skittles.

[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
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Noun1.Skittlesskittles - a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins
bowling - a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them


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He looked with an indifferent eye, alike on skittles, cards, and dice, thinking only of the locksmith's daughter, and the base degenerate days on which he had fallen.
"They received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of skittles," said he in conclusion.
At the appointed hour arrives the coroner, for whom the jurymen are waiting and who is received with a salute of skittles from the good dry skittle-ground attached to the Sol's Arms.
 
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