skulled

Struck the cranium

Skulled works as a past tense and as a combining form.

To skull someone is to strike them on the head: The pitcher skulled the batter with a fastball.

In Australian slang, to skull a drink is to down it in one go: He skulled his beer.

As a combining form, skulled describes the type of skull something has: thick-skulled, bare-skulled.

anatomy

cranium

Skull bone structure

parietal · temporal · frontal · mandible · maxilla · sphenoid · suture · foramen · fossa · braincase

struck

headbutted

Hit with the cranium

  • bashedStruck violently
  • crackedHaving surface fractures
  • hitSuccessful contact or strike

smashed · knocked · clubbed · bludgeoned · clobbered · walloped · blow · impact · collision

compound

blockhead

Stupid, foolish person

dense · dimwitted · slow-witted · dull · obtuse

drinking

chugged

Drank in gulps

shotgunned · funneled · drained · finished · beer · pint · shot · chugger

Categories
Opposites
force of contact

skulledcaressed

Touched with tenderness

stroked · patted · brushed · grazed · tapped

deliberateness of head contact

skulledmissed

Failed to reach

whiffed · avoided · dodged

drinking speed

skulledsipped

Drank in small quantities

savored · nursed · tasted · sampled · nipped

Phrases
Family

skull, skulls, skullcap, skulling, skullcaps

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG