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Idiom

skittles party

Meaning

A party where teenagers or young adults bring with them a lot of random pills, take them, and see what happens

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“They went to a dangerous skittles party last night.”

“The police warned parents about the risks of teenagers attending a skittles party in the neighborhood.”

“The local authorities issued a stern warning after discovering that the group had organized a reckless skittles party, where participants consumed unknown substances with no regard for their safety.”

Examples

simple

“They went to a dangerous skittles party last night.”

contextual

“The police warned parents about the risks of teenagers attending a skittles party in the neighborhood.”

complex

“The local authorities issued a stern warning after discovering that the group had organized a reckless skittles party, where participants consumed unknown substances with no regard for their safety.”

Origin

After Skittles, a brand of multicolored fruit-flavored lentil-shaped candies.

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