(transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To cause to have diarrhea. / (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.

(Scotland, Northern England, uncountable) Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin excrement.

Easily scared or startled; timid. / Wanton; changeable; fickle. / Difficult to manage; tricky.

(bowling) The long narrow building in which skittles is played.

(mostly British, uncountable) A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.

plural of skittle

One of the wooden targets used in skittles.

(intransitive) To play skittles. / (transitive) (with down) To squander one's money. / (transitive, cricket) (sometimes with out) To rapidly bowl out a succession of batsmen.

(UK) Not everything about life is pleasurable.

(obsolete) A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow. / A trick. / A contemptible person. / (Ireland) A drinking binge. / (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) One who skites; a boaster.