Definitions for skewers

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skewers skew·er

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IPA: /ˈskyu ər/

Skewers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in skewers (eekrssw).

Definitions for skewers

noun

1. a long pin of wood or metal for inserting through meat or other food to hold or bind it in cooking.
2. any similar pin for fastening or holding an item in place.
3. an oblique movement, direction, or position.
4. Also called skew chisel. a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely.

adjective

1. having an oblique direction or position; slanting.
2. having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.:
3. Mathematics. (of a dyad or dyadic) equal to the negative of its conjugate.
4. (of an arch, bridge, etc.) having the centerline of its opening forming an oblique angle with the direction in which its spanning structure is built.
5. Statistics. (of a distribution) having skewness.

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten with or as if with a skewer.
2. to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely.
3. Slang. to make conform to a specific concept, attitude, or planned result; slant:
4. to distort; depict unfairly.

verb (used without object)

1. to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.
2. to look obliquely; squint.

Origin of skewers

First recorded in 1670-80; earlier skiver

Examples for skewers

When you put it away after dinner, skewer on again the skin.

Is it because the biracial comedians seamlessly slip into the characters and skewer racial stereotypes?

Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.

We use this guy as a foil to skewer Hollywood actors and pop culture.

skewer the livers and gizzards to the sides, under the wings.

Without context, subtlety, and commentary, a parody begins to look eerily like the scenario it is attempting to skewer.

To find out why Judge & Co. decided to skewer Silicon Valley, and how they went about doing it, we recently gave them a call.

This she repeated until her skewer would bear no more weight.

Does it mean that when you are a representative you will not scruple to skewer M. le Marquis?

Lift them out with a skewer, and drop them into hot fat (see French Frying).