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skittling

skittling is the present participle and gerund of skittle.

Meaning of skittle

Verb

skittle (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) (sometimes with out) To rapidly bowl out a succession of batsmen.
    1. (figuratively, transitive) To defeat easily.
  4. (transitive) To knock down (skittles).

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Phrases with skittling

Questions about skittling

What is skittling the present participle and gerund of?
Skittling is the present participle and gerund of skittle.

Words near skittling in the dictionary

  1. skittles
  2. skittles and beer
  3. skittles out
  4. skittles parties
  5. skittles party
  6. skittling
  7. skittling out
  8. skitty
  9. skitz
  10. skitzed
  11. skitzes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skittling (page history and authors); skittle (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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