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skeet

/skiːt/

skeet noun: a form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.

Noun (1)

skeet (countable and uncountable, plural skeets)

  1. (uncountable) 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.1929, “Skeet”, in West Virginia Wildlife, volume 7, page 22
    • 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 stocks1932, Charles Askins, “Notes on skeet”, in Outdoor Life, page 40
  2. (countable) A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.
  3. (slang, uncountable, African-American Vernacular) The ejaculation of semen.
  4. (Newfoundland, countable, slang, Labrador) A young working-class person who may be loud, disruptive and poorly educated.
    • A small part at least of the language associated with younger speakers originates in local words that appear to have undergone local meaning change. A good example is skeet. This term may be related to skite which in neighbouring Prince Edward Island can mean a 'young scoundrel' (Pratt 1988), or to...[2010, Sandra Clarke, Newfoundland and Labrador English, page 151

Verb (1)

skeet (third-person singular simple present skeets, present participle skeeting, simple past and past participle skeeted)

  1. (ambitransitive) 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.’1940, Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, page 203
    • When her left hook connected with his nose, blood skeeted out and stained her top.2004, Camika C Spencer, He Had It Coming, page 160
  2. (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular) 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).2002 October 8, “Get Low” (track 19), in Kings of Crunk, performed by Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
    • "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.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 17

Noun (2)

skeet (plural skeets)

  1. (obsolete) A long-handled shovel or scoop.
    • My werk & labour schal be to tellyn what is þis wose of þe vij. dedly synnes, & how ʒe schul caste out þis wose, ffirst wyth with a skeet of contricyoun, and after wyth a skauell of confession, and þanne schouelyn out clene þe crummys, wyth þe schouele of satisfaccyoun.c. 1440, Arthur Brandeis, editor, Jacob's well : an Englisht treatise on the cleansing of man's conscience, published 1900, page 2
  2. A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
    • The best method for wetting the after sails is with a garden syringe or small engine[…] For the head sails a skeet made of tough ash, having a good long handle ; the head or skeeting part curves scimitar fashion, to be about three and a half feet in length, and scooped out an inch and a half in...1862, Vanderdecken [William Cooper], The Yacht Sailor, page 131

Verb (2)

skeet (third-person singular simple present skeets, present participle skeeting, simple past and past participle skeeted)

  1. (dated) 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 wind1870, Henry Coleman Folkard, The Sailing Boat, page 161

Noun (3)

skeet (uncountable)

  1. (Isle of Man) news or gossip

Verb (3)

skeet (third-person singular simple present skeets, present participle skeeting, simple past and past participle skeeted)

  1. (Isle of Man) to spy through the front windows of somebody else's house

Noun (4)

skeet (plural skeets)

  1. (Internet) 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.[2023 April 29, Sheera Frenkel, “Interest Builds Over Bluesky, A Social Site Akin to Twitter”, in New York Times, page B3
    • At first, it was kind of fun when Bluesky broke.[…] When threading broke – causing people to receive tonnes of notifications if they replied to a long enough chain of skeets – users created the "hellthread", an infinitely long, chaotic conversation2023 June 10, Annalee Newitz, “And now for something completely familiar”, in New Scientist, volume 258, page 22

Verb (4)

skeet (third-person singular simple present skeets, present participle skeeting, simple past and past participle skeeted)

  1. (Internet) To create a skeet.
    • Yeah, and there's a new social media app called Blue Sky, and on it, Senator Brian Schatz from Hawaii, Democrat, he just skeeted, quote, the only way to prevent default with a bipartisan majority and 60 in the Senate is a clean anti-default bill.2023 May 1, “Yellen Predicts Debt Limit Could Be Reached By June”, in The Lead with Jake Tapper, spoken by Jake Tapper
    • 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.2024 February 9, Ubaid Zargar, quoting Naresh Gupta, “Is Jack Dorsey's Bluesky another Threads in the making?”, in afaqs!, Mumbai

skeet meaning in Urdu

skeet in Urdu

تیز حرکت کرنا

Examples of skeet in a sentence

  • Skeet started informally in 1920 as off-season practice for bird hunting, so it needed few rules.2007, King Heiple, Mastering Skeet, page 163:
  • I’ve never even done a ‘skeet’, the unfortunate name of the Bluesky version.2023 July 22, Max Chafkin, “What if the next big social media app is ... Nothing?”, in Irish Examiner, Cork:
  • Bluesky’s faithful have playfully dubbed posts “skeets” in contrast to tweets – although Bluesky’s own CEO Jay Graber has begged users to stop using that term.[2024 July 2, “X alternative Bluesky finally opens up for all: What’s the hype about?”, in Indian Express, Mumbai:

Synonyms of skeet

Forms of skeet

Noun
pluralskeets
Verb
third-person singular presentskeets
present participleskeeting
past participleskeeted
pastskeeted

Plural of skeet: skeets

Origin of skeet

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.

Unknown. Compare Icelandic skeið (“spoon”), from Old Norse skeið (“a sheath”). Attested from the 15th century; see quotation below.

Uncertain. Compare Manx skeetagh (“nosy”, adverb). Compare also English peek (“to look slyly; a quick glance”, verb or noun) or skit (“to caper; to be skittish”, verb).

Words formed from skeet

Words that rhyme with skeet

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Questions about skeet

What does skeet mean?
Skeet means a form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
What is skeet in Urdu?
Skeet in Urdu is تیز حرکت کرنا. See Skeet meaning in Urdu.
How do you use skeet in a sentence?
Skeet started informally in 1920 as off-season practice for bird hunting, so it needed few rules.
What part of speech is skeet?
Skeet can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce skeet?
Skeet is pronounced /skiːt/.
What is the plural of skeet?
The plural of skeet is skeets.

Words near skeet in the dictionary

  1. skeers
  2. skeert
  3. skeery
  4. skees
  5. skeesicks
  6. skeet
  7. skeet shooting
  8. Skeete
  9. skeeted
  10. skeeter
  11. skeeter hawk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skeet (page history and authors); skeet (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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