skeet
Meanings
noun
- A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
- A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.
- The ejaculation of semen.
- A young working-class person who may be loud, disruptive and poorly educated.
verb
- To shoot or spray.
- To ejaculate.
noun
- A long-handled shovel or scoop.
- A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
verb
- To wet the sails or deck of a vessel.
noun
- news or gossip
verb
- to spy through the front windows of somebody else's house
noun
- A post on the Bluesky social media platform.
verb
- To create a skeet.
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Etymology
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.
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