Skeet Definition

skēt

noun

Trapshooting in which the shooter fires from different stations, usually eight, at clay disks thrown from traps to simulate birds in flight.

Webster's New World

A form of trapshooting in which clay targets are thrown from traps to simulate birds in flight and are shot at from different stations.

American Heritage

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

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(uncountable, slang, African American Vernacular) The ejaculation of sperm.

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

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verb

To shoot or spray (used of fluids).

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(African American Vernacular) To ejaculate.

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(Manx) To look through the front windows of somebody else's house.

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Origin of Skeet

Winning suggestion in a 1926 contest held by promoters to name the sport (then recently introduced), submitted by Gertrude Hurlbutt of Dayton, Montana, who derived it from a Scandinavian source such as Norwegian scyte to shoot (from Old Norse skjōta) (akin to English shoot)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Winning suggestion in a 1926 contest held by promoters to name the sport (then recently introduced), submitted by Gertrude Hurlbutt of Dayton, Montana, who derived it from a Scandinavian source such as Norwegian scyte to shoot (from Old Norse skjōta) (akin to English shoot)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Pseudoarchaic alteration of shoot, perhaps with reference to Old Norse skjóta.

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