From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishskittleskit‧tle /ˈskɪtl/ noun 1 → skittles2 [countable]DGO one of the objects you roll the ball at in the game of skittles
Examples from the Corpus
skittle• Other facilities include a bar, an excellent restaurant, swimming pool, fitness room, sauna, solarium & skittle alley.• That for an hour, then a skittle of milk and the chalky Pyramids rubbed into dust.• Corstorphine Inn A jolly place for beers and skittles.• The occasional pint of beer at skittles night is allowed too.• Trueman's show was an homage to pub sports-bar billiards, darts, skittles and shove ha'penny.• With a last desperate heave the steel door slammed shut, slicing off the row of fingers like falling skittles.• He was almost without shoulders, reminding Shamlou of a tenpin skittle. 