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noun
A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: card-games, poker
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noun
The ejaculation of semen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
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noun
A young working-class person who may be loud, disruptive and poorly educated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Newfoundland, countable, slang
Qualifier: Labrador
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noun
A long-handled shovel or scoop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
news or gossip
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: Isle of Man
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noun
A post on the Bluesky social media platform.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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verb
To shoot or spray.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
To ejaculate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, vulgar
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
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verb
To wet the sails or deck of a vessel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
to spy through the front windows of somebody else's house
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Isle of Man
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verb
To create a skeet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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noun
the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: skeet shooting, trapshooting
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Broader terms: shoot
History
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.
Unknown. Compare Icelandic skeið (“spoon”), from Old Norse skeið (“a sheath”). Attested from the 15th century; see quotation below.
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).
Blend of sky + tweet, from the resemblance to tweets posted on Twitter. Strongly discouraged by CEO Jay Graber.
Across languages
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
