What does "skeet" mean?
A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
Skeet
/skiːt/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
- Grammar: skeet is listed as noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: archery, bingo, casting, checkers.
- Useful contrasts: contain, control, fail to hit.
- Usage evidence: 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.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight. uncountable
"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."
- 2 A long-handled shovel or scoop. obsolete
"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."
- 3 news or gossip uncountable
- 4 A post on the Bluesky social media platform. Internet
"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."
- 5 the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird wordnet
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- 6 A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9. countable
- 7 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 width by two and a half inches in depth"
- 8 The ejaculation of semen. slang, uncountable
- 9 A young working-class person who may be loud, disruptive and poorly educated. Newfoundland, countable, slang
"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 the American terms skeester/skeeter, definied by the Dictionary of American Regional English (Cassidy and Hall 1985) as 'rascal, rogue'. If older NLE speakers know this word at all, they would probably use it in this sense. Among younger speakers, however, it has much the same meaning as such British slang terms as chav, charver or scally, or even the North American white trash."
Verb
- 1 To shoot or spray. ambitransitive
"‘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.’"
- 2 To wet the sails or deck of a vessel. dated
"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 wind"
- 3 to spy through the front windows of somebody else's house
- 4 To create a skeet. Internet
"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."
- 5 To ejaculate. slang
"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)."
Example
"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."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "skeet"?
Common synonyms include: archery, bingo, casting, checkers, chess, clay pigeon shooting.
How do you use "skeet" in a sentence?
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.
How do you pronounce "skeet"?
Pronounced /skiːt/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
Unknown. Compare Icelandic skeið (“spoon”), from Old Norse skeið (“a sheath”). Attested from the 15th century; see quotation below.
Etymology 3
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).
Etymology 4
Blend of sky + tweet, from the resemblance to tweets posted on Twitter. Strongly discouraged by CEO Jay Graber.