skeet
skeet Lexical Profile
skeet Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A competitive target-shooting sport in which clay discs are mechanically flung into the air from two fixed stations at high and low angles to simulate the flight of game birds.
"She spent Saturday afternoon practicing skeet at the outdoor range to improve her reaction time."
American An informal regional term for a mosquito, a small flying insect of the family Culicidae whose females bite and feed on blood.
"We lit citronella candles on the porch to keep the skeets away during the warm summer evening."
• verb
To participate in the sport of shooting clay targets launched from fixed stations.
"The club members gather every Sunday morning to skeet and compare their scores."
To move, dart, or scurry swiftly and lightly across a surface (dialectal or informal).
"A small lizard skeeted across the sun-baked flagstones and vanished into the garden wall."
• Rhymes for skeet
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in 1926 by Gertrude Hurlbutt in a naming contest held by a hunting magazine, formed as an alteration of the Norwegian word 'skyte' (to shoot), which stems from Old Norse 'skjóta'.