Crossword clues for skittle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skittle \Skit"tle\, a. Pertaining to the game of skittles.
Skittle alley, an alley or court in which the game of skittles is played.
Skittle ball, a disk or flattish ball of wood for throwing at the pins in the game of skittles.
Wiktionary
n. one of the wooden targets used in skittles vb. 1 To play skittles. 2 To beat comprehensively. 3 To use as a recreational drug a certain over-the-counter cough medication that is taken orally and whose tablets are said to resemble http://en.wikipedi
org/wiki/Skittles%20(confectionery).
WordNet
n. a bowling pin of the type used in ninepins or (in England) skittles [syn: ninepin, skittle pin]
v. play skittles
Usage examples of "skittle".
Haagedorn, left for an unfortunate moment to face the bowling, succumbed to a really nasty and almost unplayable ball which curled round his feet like a playful kitten and skittled his leg-stump.
Skittles, everything set in a bed of plucked ferns so that the spot now looked like a holy site for animists recently proselytized.
He inspired me with a very warm friendship, and during recess, instead of playing skittles with the others, we always walked together.
Trees had been smashed down like skittles, all around that pirouetting fire, and huge shards of the broken-up dipterocarps were picked up and thrown around in the air as easily as match-stalks.
And he can live at my demesne there -- that'll be beer and skittles for him -- I know he'll agree.
Married life is not all beer and skittles, I don't mind telling you.
I should say life isn't all beer and skittles for him, with a wife -- or whatever you like to call her, which I can guess, knowing you!
Yes, I can see this isn't going to be all beer and skittles, not by a long chalk it isn't!
When we were talking to Chumley and he said that his life wasn't all beer and skittles, it took me a while to puzzle out what he was talking about, but it finally came clear.
And he told them about horse racing and skittles and bull baiting and coursing and whippets and hawking and bowls and the new stock companies and letters of marque and shooting and darts and lotteries and boxing and cards and wrestling and dice and checkers and dominoes and the time at the fairs when you put farthings on numbers and bet against the wheels of chance.
Tom was out of cash and the nearest ATM machine was all the way back in the food court, so he whipped out his trusty AmEx card and put the tickets on the plastic, and Bud paid him back by buying popcorn and a box of Skittles.
There was so much to see and so much to do: games of bowls on the green, and a beautiful Aunt Sally, there was a skittle alley, and two merry-go-rounds: there were performing monkeys and dancing bears, a woman so fat that three men with arms outstretched could not get round her, and a man so thin that he could put a lady's bracelet round his neck and her garter around his waist.
Though my recruitment onto the team denoted some raising of my status in the village I had not risen too high as there had always been a problem getting new members: a lot of the newer inhabitants of the Northamptonshire villages had difficulty in seeing the point of throwing cheese-shaped bits of wood at skittles in the evening after a hard day spent designing new forms of poison gas or new methods of torturing animals.
Sir Edward had promised to keep him informed, and did so through Jade, who skittled up and down the stairs every half an hour, eyes round with terror and suffering.
The baby Kiint’s legs were getting all twisted round as she skittled hurriedly out of the way.