skittles

'Game of Skittles', copy of painting by Pieter de Hooch, Cincinnati Art Museum

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.
  • An informal form of chess played without a clock.
  • Plural of skittle

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