Definition of "skittle"

skittle

/ˈskɪtəl/

noun
plural skittles
1. One of the wooden targets used in skittles.
  Quotations
  By the afternoon it seemed as if the storm had passed and that frost was setting in; but in the evening the wind rose to gale force, bringing telegraph poles down like skittles and tangling power and telephone lines.
  1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 137
verb
third-person singular simple present skittles, present participle skittling, simple past and past participle skittled
1. (intransitive) To play skittles.
2. (transitive) (with down) To squander one's money.
3. (transitive, cricket) (sometimes with out) To rapidly bowl out a succession of batsmen.
  1. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat easily.
4. (transitive) To knock down (skittles).