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单词 skittle
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skittle

(skɪtəl)
Word forms: plural skittles
1. countable noun
A skittle is a wooden object used as a target in the game of skittles.
[mainly British]
2. uncountable noun
Skittles is a game in which players try to knock over as many skittles as they can out of a group of nine by rolling a ball at them.
[mainly British]

skittle in British English

(ˈskɪtəl)
noun
1. 
a wooden or plastic pin, typically widest just above the base
2.  Also called (esp US): ninepins (plural; functioning as singular)
a bowling game in which players knock over as many skittles as possible by rolling a wooden ball at them
3.  beer and skittles
Word origin
C17: of obscure origin; perhaps related to Swedish, Danish skyttel shuttle

skittle in American English

(ˈskɪtəl)
noun
1.  [pl., with sing. v.]
a British form of ninepins in which a wooden disk or ball is used to knock down the pins
2. 
any of these pins
Idioms:
(not) all beer and skittles
Word origin
prob. < Scand cognate of shuttle (as in Dan skyttel, a shuttle, marble)

Examples of 'skittle' in a sentence
skittle

A skittle score was being kept meticulously by Evan Meredith.
Secombe, Fred GOODBYE CURATE (1995)
Then Silvester's wife picked me up by the lapels and stood me on the floor like a skittle waiting to be knocked over.
Adam, Paul A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH (1995)
If you didn't know she was green, it would be hard to tell-in this dark afternoon, in this raking skittle of snow.
Gregory Maguire WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST (1995)
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