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skats

skats is the plural of skat.

Meaning of skat

Noun (1)

skat (plural skats)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Alternate spelling of scat: a brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.

Noun (2)

skat (countable and uncountable, plural skats)

  1. (uncountable) A trick-taking card game for three players, popular in Germany.
    • “Who shall we play skat with when you have gone?” asked Mrs Britling.1916, HG Wells, Mr Britling Sees it Through, London: Hogarth Press, published 1985, page 165
  2. (countable) A widow of two cards in the game of skat.

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Questions about skats

What is skats the plural of?
Skats is the plural of skat.

Words near skats in the dictionary

  1. skatol
  2. skatole
  3. skatoles
  4. skatology
  5. skatols
  6. skats
  7. skatt
  8. Skattebøl rearrangement
  9. Skattebøl rearrangements
  10. skattie
  11. skatties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skats (page history and authors); skat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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