SKITTLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skittles mean? 

• SKITTLES (noun)
  The noun SKITTLES has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SKITTLES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKITTLES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ninepins; skittles

Hypernyms ("skittles" is a kind of...):

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)

 Context examples 

If you was to take to something, sir, said Mrs. Crupp, if you was to take to skittles, now, which is healthy, you might find it divert your mind, and do you good.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But I heard, afterwards, that he was seen to play a lively game at skittles, before noon.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It may have been in consequence of Mrs. Crupp's advice, and, perhaps, for no better reason than because there was a certain similarity in the sound of the word skittles and Traddles, that it came into my head, next day, to go and look after Traddles.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Doctor Strong looked almost as rusty, to my thinking, as the tall iron rails and gates outside the house; and almost as stiff and heavy as the great stone urns that flanked them, and were set up, on the top of the red-brick wall, at regular distances all round the court, like sublimated skittles, for Time to play at.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)