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sugarskull

sugarskull is the alternative spelling of sugar skull.

Meaning of sugar skull

Noun

sugar skull (plural sugar skulls)

  1. (Mexico) A brightly colored skull face icon, placed on the grave of the deceased to celebrate their life during festivals and feast days.
    Synonyms:
    calavera
  2. A more modern design of the same style, often done as a tattoo, and normally darker in colour and more macabre.

Forms of sugarskull

pluralsugarskulls

Questions about sugarskull

What is sugarskull the alternative spelling of?
Sugarskull is the alternative spelling of sugar skull.

Words near sugarskull in the dictionary

  1. sugars
  2. sugars down
  3. sugars off
  4. sugars out
  5. sugars up
  6. sugarskull
  7. sugarskulls
  8. sugarstick
  9. sugarsweet
  10. sugartime
  11. sugartits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sugarskull (page history and authors); sugar 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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