skittles
pronunciation
How to pronounce skittles in British English:
UK [s'kɪtls]
How to pronounce skittles in American English:
US [s'kɪtls]
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- Noun:
- bowling down an alley at a target of nine wooden pins
Word Origin
- skittles (n.)
- game played with nine pins, 1630s, plural of skittle, the word for the pins used in the game, probably from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish and Norwegian skyttel "shuttle, child's toy"). But OED says there is no evidence of a connection.
Example
- 1. Did you think life was all beer and skittles ?
- 2. Life is not nearly drink and skittles .
- 3. Life is not all beer and skittles .
- 4. All you want is beer and skittles .
- 5. S not all beer and skittles .