skeet

¹

[ skeet ]

noun

1. a form of trapshooting in which two traps are used and targets are hurled singly or in pairs at varying elevations and speeds so as to simulate the angles of flight taken by game birds.

skeet

²

[ skeet ]

noun

, Poker.

1. a hand consisting of a nine, five, two, and two other cards of denominations below nine but not of the same denomination, being of special value in certain games.

skeet

³

[ skeet ]

verb (used with object)

, Southern U.S. and British Dialect.

1. to spit (saliva or a mouthful of other liquid) from the mouth, especially between the teeth.
2. to splash; spray:

   Skeet some cold water on your face to cool off.

skeet

/ skiːt /

noun

1. a form of clay-pigeon shooting in which targets are hurled from two traps at varying speeds and angles Also calledskeet shooting

Word History and Origins

Origin of skeet¹

First recorded in 1925–30; supposedly as the result of a contest to choose a name for the sport (the winner claimed that the word was “a very old form” of shoot ¹ )

Origin of skeet²

Origin uncertain

Origin of skeet³

First recorded in 1875–80; compare Scots skite, scoot in same sense, probably ultimately from Old Norse skýt-, 1st-person present stem of skjóta “to shoot, launch, shove quickly”; shoot ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of skeet¹

C20: changed from Old Norse skeyti a thrown object, from skjōta to shoot

Example Sentences

Skeet shooting involves two target-launching devices, one slightly above the ground, and a second ten feet off the ground.

From The Daily Beast

Shooting skeet, shooting trap or shooting clays are all the same where we come from.

From The Daily Beast

But the same initial impulse to buy into the lie as we saw in “Skeet-Gate” was apparent.

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He replied, “Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time.”

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From birthers to ‘Benghazi flu,’ right-wingers who see cover-ups around every corner have found a new obsession in ‘Skeet-Gate.’

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“I figure that a Skeet girl belongs as much to us as to you,” snapped the doughty little man from Castonia.

From Project Gutenberg

“It seems to have a damaging and cavascacious effect on the giant intellect of Perfessor Skeet,” remarked the boss, with irony.

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A sense of calamity told him that there was trouble deeper than the disappearance of the waif of the Skeet tribe.

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"I reckon I could make him skeet, if I wanted to," I remarked, embarrassed rather than malevolent.

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We just get a running start and jump on the ice and skeet as far as we could go, and then run some more.

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