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  • verb Present participle of skittle.

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Examples

  • Slang terms include "skittling" for cold pills or "robotripping" for cough medicine.

    PE Angels Baseball 2009

  • 'This game is of the description known as "skittling" among proficients.'

    ChessBase News 2008

  • Middlesex deserve top billing for skittling Surrey for 167 at Lord's, with Tim Murtagh taking five wickets against his old county, and Pedro Collins claiming four including Mark Ramprakash.

    County cricket - as it happened! 2010

  • My sympathies about the little skittling nightmare–I just recently had my first encounter with one of this you know whats assuming we are talking about the same thing and all my mother could do to console me was say “Well, you ARE in New York City!”

    majestic and moist honey cake | smitten kitchen 2008

  • Better they should have been a pair of ragged claws skittling across the floors of silent seas.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • Words rolled out of his mouth like giant bowling balls, skittling people over.

    California Dreaming Lawrence Donegan 2002

  • Words rolled out of his mouth like giant bowling balls, skittling people over.

    California Dreaming Lawrence Donegan 2002

  • Very few people realize that there is any real thrill to be had in studying the reaction of little Arthur to the mumps; and it is difficult to get a story plot out of ceaseless weeks of skittling and scratching and saving that Martha must go through in order to get a new vacuum cleaner.

    Does Life Exist After Marriage 1933

  • The Aussies had started the second day on 214-8 in their first innings and were bowled out for 284, before skittling the Proteas for 96.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • The Zimbabwe spin battery of Price, Prosper Utseya, Greg Lamb and Graeme Cremer did most of the damage, skittling Kenya for just 147 on a pitch which actually favoured the batsman.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2011

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