Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A form of trapshooting in which clay targets are thrown from traps to simulate birds in flight and are shot at from different stations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swift; fleet.
- Keen; bold; brave.
- Swiftly; quickly.
- noun The pollack.
- noun A scoop.
- A dialectal form of
scoot .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
news orgossip - verb to look through the front windows of somebody else's house
- noun uncountable A
form oftrapshooting using clay targets tosimulate birds inflight . - noun countable, poker A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.
- noun uncountable, slang, African American Vernacular The
ejaculation ofsperm . - noun nautical A
scoop with a longhandle , used towash the sides of avessel and formerly to wet thesails ordeck . - noun countable, Newfoundland, slang A
loud ,disruptive and poorlyeducated person. - verb To shoot or spray (used of fluids).
- verb African American Vernacular To
ejaculate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But, if you are interested in skeet only as practice for hunting, and you hunt with a side by side, that's the best gun to use.
Which is the better gun for skeet shooting, a side by side or a over and under? 2009
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But, if you are interested in skeet only as practice for hunting, and you hunt with a side by side, that's the best gun to use.
Which is the better gun for skeet shooting, a side by side or a over and under? 2009
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The U.S. women set a second senior-level world record in skeet, with Brandie Neal (fifth place), Connie Smotek (sixth) and Haley Dunn combined for a 211, one ahead of the existing mark.
USATODAY.com - Hansen nets weekly honor after swimming to world record double 2006
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Teen phenom Vincent Hancock, 16, won the world championship in skeet shooting in Lonato, Italy.
USATODAY.com - Athlete of the Week Perry joins hurdling elite 2005
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Andrea Benelli of Italy won the gold medal in skeet shooting Sunday, beating Marko Kemppainen of Finland in an event that required two shoot-offs to determine the medals.
USATODAY.com - Emmons loses gold medal after aiming at wrong target 2004
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I know it isn't correct to call the clays "skeet" but I hear tons of people refer to them as such, me included.
Slow-Mo Skeet 2008
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I normally crank it up late in the evening or whenever my colleauges are starting to feel sleepy at work. and i just found out what 'skeet' means. euw.
natinski Diary Entry natinski 2007
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The CBU-105 (CBU stands for cluster bomb unit) carries 40 "skeet" bomblets.
USATODAY.com - Cluster bombs kill in Iraq, even after shooting ends 2003
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LivingSocial also will begin focusing more on excursions such as skeet shooting and beer tasting.
LivingSocial Counts on Amazon.com's Assistance in 'Gunfight' With Groupon - Bloomberg 2010
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(1,000lb) - class SFW deploys 10 submunitions, each of which contains four individual "skeet" warheads.
HEADLINES 2009
chained_bear commented on the word skeet
"... a sort of long scoop used to wet the decks and sides of a ship, in order to keep them cool, and to prevent them from splitting by the heat of the sun.... It is also employed in small vessels to wet the sails, to render them more efficacious in light breezes: this operation is sometimes performed in large ships by means of the fire-engine."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 483–484
October 13, 2008