skittle

noun

1. One of the wooden targets used in skittles.

   “By the afternoon it seemed as if the storm had passed and that frost was setting in; but in the evening the wind rose to gale force, bringing telegraph poles down like skittles and tangling power and telephone lines.”

verb

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