skeet

• IPA^(key): /skiːt/

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• Rhymes: -iːt

Pseudo-archaic alteration of shoot, perhaps with reference to Old Norse skjóta.[1]

skeet (countable and uncountable, plural skeets)

1. (uncountable) A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
2. (countable, poker) A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.
3. (uncountable, slang, African-American Vernacular) The ejaculation of semen.
4. (nautical) A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
5. (countable, Newfoundland, slang) A young working-class person who's occasionally loud, disruptive and poorly educated person.

skeet (third-person singular simple present skeets, present participle skeeting, simple past and past participle skeeted)

1. (transitive, intransitive, of fluids) To shoot or spray.
   • 2004, Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter‎:

     ‘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.’

   • 2004, Camika C Spencer, He Had It Coming‎:

     When her left hook connected with his nose, blood skeeted out and stained her top.

2. (African-American Vernacular) To ejaculate.
   • 2005, “Wait (The Whisper Song)”, in U.S.A. - United State of Atlanta, performed by Ying Yang Twins:

     Ya wanna skeet, skeet ya bout to get ya feelins hurt / Cause I beat that cat with a dog

• squirt

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skeet (uncountable)

1. (Isle of Man) news or gossip

skeet (third-person singular simple present skeets, present participle skeeting, simple past and past participle skeeted)

1. (Isle of Man) to look through the front windows of somebody else's house

• 'keets, Teske, keets, skete, steek, teeks

skeet

1. A creeping, sneaking fellow.

skeet m (uncountable)

1. skeet (style of shooting)