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

noun. Plural form of skittle.

noun. 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

noun. An informal form of chess played without a clock

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

"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."

ninepins  tenpin bowling  

skittle alley  

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acquittals  belittles  kittles  vittles