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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Skittles \Skit"tles\, noun pl. [Of Scand. origin. [root]159. See {Shoot}, verb (used with an object), and cf. {Shuttle}, {Skit}, verb (used with an object)] An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
skittles
noun: bowling down an alley at a target of nine wooden pins [syn: {ninepins}]
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