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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skeet

Skeet \Skeet\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Naut.) A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
skeet

form of trapshooting, 1926, a name chosen as "a very old form of our present word 'shoot.' " Perhaps Old Norse skotja "to shoot" (see shoot (v.)) was intended.

Wiktionary
skeet

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context uncountable English) A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight. 2 (context countable poker English) A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9. 3 (context uncountable slang African American Vernacular English English) The ejaculation of sperm. 4 (context nautical English) A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck. 5 (context countable Newfoundland slang English) A loud, disruptive and poorly educated person. vb. 1 To shoot or spray (used of fluids). 2 (context African American Vernacular English English) To ejaculate. Etymology 2

n. (context Manx English) news or gossip vb. (context Manx English) to look through the front windows of somebody else's house

WordNet
skeet

n. the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird [syn: skeet shooting, trapshooting]

Wikipedia
Skeet

Skeet may refer to:

  • Skeet shooting, a sport
    • Olympic skeet, variant used at the Olympic Games
  • Skeet River, a river of the Tasman Region of New Zealand's South Island
  • A cluster bomb submunition of the BLU-108
  • Curtiss KD2C Skeet, an unsuccessful US military target drone
  • Skeet (Newfoundland) a pejorative term in Newfoundland English for a person of questionable integrity
  • Skeet Flush - A type of non-standard poker hand
Skeet (Newfoundland)

Skeet is a stereotype and pejorative epithet in Newfoundland English, describing a lower class youth, "ignorant, aggressive and unruly", of low education, often wearing sportswear, and associated with loitering, non-standard English language, drug and alcohol use, and petty crime. The term is similar to the English chav or American white trash or wigger. Sandra Clarke suggests the term may be related to the Prince Edward Island word skite (a young scoundrel).

Usage examples of "skeet".

Probably Slick had foreseen that Lippy would choose that method to while away his hours, and had counted on a few drinks making him an easier target for Skeet.

Turning, The Shadow studied the prone form of Lippy Jang, the man that Skeet Zurbel had come here to murder.

The door, when it opened, admitted a scrawny figure that reminded The Shadow of Skeet, except that the newcomer, Napper, was more huddled.

Skeet leaned all the way out the window and tilted his head to look at Dallie.

Skeet worriedly noticed the way I eyed a dropped Mentos lying on the terrazzo floor.

That was the time needed by Skeet Lowry to unpeg his aircraft and screw the plugs in.

I have it on impeccable authority that you cornhole Tammy Sue Clendennon in the Gun and Skeet Club library every Wednesday, then pork your secretary, Marbella Tremaine, for dessert.

Consequently, Grenville had taken up skeet shooting, hunting, and competition target shooting.

This deed shall hereby exclude the following commercial events: tennis tournaments, automobile races, soccer, skeet shooting, rodeos, croquet, lacrosse, monster-truck pulls, Wrestlemania or any Battle of the Network Superstars.

Wo laughed in a harty fashion and said exellent and Wo leaned over our skeet sayng if we should happenbychance to see Poor Tony or them to please give Poor Tony his quite best regards and wish him prosparity and a thousand blisses.

Skeet said, as like a little boy he licked cream from his dessert spoon.

She was as high on fear as Skeet on his drug cocktail, and hardly more rational than the kid had been on the Sorensons’.

The lady in pink, at her instigation and without threat of suit, settled upon Skeet the sum of one and three-quarter-million dollars, after taxes, and with his health restored, he decided to take a few months off from housepainting to travel and consider his options.

Upon checking into New Life, Skeet had submitted to a strip search for controlled substances, and none had been found either in his clothing or secreted in any body cavities.