(n. pl.) A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The police then opened fire with sub-machine-guns, Sten guns, and rifles, and eye-witnesses said that the front ranks of the crowd fell like ninepins.
(2) A new study has come up with a possible explanation, suggesting that the break-up of relationships within groups of friends is contagious – one couple within a social group divorces and their friends' relationships collapse around them like ninepins.
(3) 4.00pm BST We now run from the interview room and clean across the All England club grounds - knocking officials and spectators like ninepins - to return to court No1, where the third set is boiling between Novak Djokovic and Marin Cilic.
Skittles
Definition:
(v. t.) An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
Example Sentences:
(1) Officials said the driver weaved along the road, knocking people down “like skittles”, for at least 2km (1.2 miles).
(2) im gona do a documntry like super size me but with skittles.
(3) Trump Jr drew ire during the campaign for agreeing to an interview with a prominent white nationalist and for comparing Syrian refugees to Skittles.
(4) Zimmerman weighs 250lbs and had a 9mm handgun; Martin, 17, weighed 140lbs and had a packet of Skittles and a can of iced tea.
(5) Do the good people at Skittles think he’s still relevant?
(6) On Saturday, vigils organise by the veteran civil rights campaigner Al Sharpton will be held across the US to protest against the acquittal of Zimmerman, who shot 17-year-old Martin as he returned home armed with nothing more than a bag of Skittles and a drink from a convenience store.
(7) She described identifying and photographing items near the body, including a bullet casing, Martin's keys, cellphone, headphones and a bag of Skittles he had just bought at a 7-Eleven convenience store less than a mile away.
(8) September 20, 2016 One Twitter user has suggested how Wrigley, the company that owns Skittles, could respond.
(9) Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) I think we should stop eating any #Skittles .
(10) Trayvon Martin was going to the store for Skittles.
(11) In 1987, he stood for parliament in the Greenwich byelection, as a candidate for the Rainbow Alliance Beer, Fags and Skittles party, polling 174 votes.
(12) Pete Haviland-Eduah (@TheNotoriousPHE) We can't swim, we can't buy skittles, we can't listen to loud music, we can't shop, we can't play, we can't breathe, we can't pray.
(13) September 20, 2016 Nicky Woolf (@NickyWoolf) TRUMP CAMPAIGN: what if we told you three skittles in this bowl are- ME: *in front of empty bowl of skittles, through mouthful* mmf whhf?
(14) On 26 February 2012 Martin was on his way home, minding his own business armed only with a can of iced tea and a bag of Skittles.
(15) mainlee cos i luv skittles and i think ppl wud like to see me eat them.
(16) The following sports were examined: callisthenics, hiking, golf, skittles, bowling, curling, games, jogging, cycling, rowing, swimming, alpine skiing, long-distance skiing, dancing, and tennis.
(17) And how many of the fans eating it will get a little experimental and try putting the Skittles inside the burger (before realising what a terrible mistake that was)?
(18) While this celebration provides an important (not to mention fun) outlet for self-expression, we must not forget that life for GLBTIQ (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer) people in contemporary Australia is not all beer and skittles.
(19) The song Hittin' Skittles was about someone I knew, but also about the Prince song The Ballad of Dorothy Parker .
(20) matt blaze (@mattblaze) If you told me that three @skittles in each bowl are poisonous, I'd look at the data and conclude that you're wrong about Skittle safety.