1. a thin strip of wood, plastic, or other material used in the game of spillikins (also called pick-up sticks)
2. the game itself in which players try to remove individual sticks from a pile without disturbing the others

Examples

• The children carefully removed each spillikin from the tangled pile.
• She won the game by successfully picking up the most spillikins.
• The spillikins scattered across the table when he bumped it.
• We played spillikins on rainy afternoons during our vacation.
• Each spillikin in the set was painted a different color.
• The goal is to extract a spillikin without moving any others.