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skittles
treated as sing. a game played with wooden pins, typically nine in number, set up at the end of an alley to be bowled down with a wooden ball or disc撞柱戏（尤指用九个木柱进行的游戏, 木柱放在球道末端, 投掷一个木球或圆盘去击倒木柱）。
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- （全称table skittles）a game played with similar pins set up on a board to be knocked down by swinging a suspended ball桌面撞柱戏（在木板上放置类似的柱子, 用一个悬挂的球撞击柱子）。
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- Brit. informal chess that is not played seriously〈英, 非正式〉非正式国际象棋比赛。
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- a pin used in the game of skittles（撞柱游戏中的）柱子。
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she put her hand out and skittled a row of bottles.
她伸出手, 撞倒了一排瓶子。
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- （常作be skittled）Cricket get (batsmen) out in rapid succession【板球】使（击球手）快速连续出局：
Pakistan were skittled out for 93.
巴基斯坦队的击球手连续93次被淘汰出局。
词源
mid 17th cent.: of unknown origin. The word skyttel exists in Danish and Swedish in the sense 'shuttle, child's marble', but there is no evidence to connect this with the game of skittles.