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skeet

noun
/skiːt/

Etymology

Pseudo-archaic alteration of shoot, perhaps with reference to Old Norse skjóta; compare Scots skite (“to dart, to shoot”). The name for a form of trapshooting is attested from the 1920s, see quotations below. Senses related to ejaculation of semen likely derive from this, but compare also squirt, skite, or scoot. The word skeet is attested in reference to working class persons in US English from the 19th century, or the Newfoundland and Labrador regionalism may derive from other terms such as skite or skeeter; see quotation below.

  1. derived from skeið — “a sheath”

Definitions

  1. A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.

    • THE ARTICLE on the sport of Skeet that appeared in the June issue of WILD LIFE described the layout of the Skeet field, installation of the traps, and the rules and regulations for Skeet shooting.
    • The longer I shoot skeet the more convinced I am that it is the greatest game ever devised for the users of shotguns. Skeet has brought home to shooters the need of properly fitting guns and the benefit of straighter stocks

  2. A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.

  3. The ejaculation of semen.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. A young working-class person who may be loud, disruptive and poorly educated.

    2. To shoot or spray.

      • ‘Aoow! You skeeted the water right in my ear. It’s busted my eardrum. I can’t even hear.’ ‘Gimme here. Let me skeet some.’
      • When her left hook connected with his nose, blood skeeted out and stained her top.

    3. To ejaculate.

      • To the window (To the window). To the wall (To the wall). Till the sweat drop down my balls (My balls). Till all these bitches crawl (Crawl). Till all skeet skeet motherfucker (Motherfucker).
      • "Good, then," I said, my joint about to skeet like a water pistol. I was surprised too. I was known for having supreme dick control, and I could usually last a lot longer than this.

    4. A long-handled shovel or scoop.

    5. A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the…

      A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck.

    6. To wet the sails or deck of a vessel.

      • It is a customary rule in all sailing matches that the sails of competing vessels should not be skeeted (i.e. wetted), except when the vessel is on a wind

    7. news or gossip

    8. to spy through the front windows of somebody else's house

    9. A post on the Bluesky social media platform.

      • Bluesky’s users appear to be having fun with the app’s similarities to Twitter, including calling posts on the app “skeets,” as a play on tweets. Not even a plea from Ms. Graber on Thursday to change that name seems to have deterred them.
      • My last ‘toot’, as Mastodon’s users call tweets, was in December. I’ve never even done a ‘skeet’, the unfortunate name of the Bluesky version.

    10. To create a skeet.

      • Bluesky is a bit like the retro Twitter, same colour scheme, similar way of building content etc, and so it reminds people of early Twitter. I am not sure if that’s enough to make people fall in love with Bluesky and go skeeting all day.

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Derived

skeet shooting

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA