Meaning
pin, traffic cone
- A wooden or plastic pin used in bowling or skittles.
- A traffic cone used for road safety or driving drills.
In a sentence
Con un solo tiro ha abbattuto tutti i birilli.
With a single throw he knocked down all the pins.
L'istruttore ha posizionato i birilli per la prova di guida.
The instructor set up the traffic cones for the driving test.
Durante i lavori hanno delimitato la corsia con dei birilli rossi.
During the roadworks they marked off the lane with red traffic cones.
Word forms (2)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| birillo | masculine · singular |
| birilli | masculine · plural |
Usage notes
- Very common in colloquial speech to describe traffic cones (instead of formal 'cono stradale').
- The idiom 'cadere come birilli' means to fall like bowling pins or dominoes.