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skulled

skulled is the simple past and past participle of skull.

Meaning of skull

Verb

skull (third-person singular simple present skulls, present participle skulling, simple past and past participle skulled)

  1. To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.
  2. (transitive) To strike the top of (the ball).
    • Monte swung so hard at the next ball that he skulled it straight right, into the pond: 8 in, 9 out.2002, Robert C. Knox, Golf Balls Are Female, page 148
  3. To drink everything that remains in a glass by upending it.
    • She nearly skulled the next drink and, despite feeling a little woozy, she felt a lot better.2016, Karen Nolan, The Y Necklace

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Adjective

skulled (not comparable)

  1. (in-compounds, often) Having a skull.
    • hard-skulled

Words formed from skulled

Questions about skulled

What does skulled mean?
Skulled means having a skull.
What is skulled the simple past and past participle of?
Skulled is the simple past and past participle of skull.
What part of speech is skulled?
Skulled is an adjective.

Words near skulled in the dictionary

  1. skulldog
  2. skulldogs
  3. skullduggeries
  4. skullduggerous
  5. skullduggery
  6. skulled
  7. skullet
  8. skullets
  9. skullfuck
  10. skullfucked
  11. skullfucker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skulled (page history and authors); skull (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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