skeet

plural skeets

1. uncountableA form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.

   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.

   1929, “Skeet”, in West Virginia Wildlife, volume 7, page 22

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   The longer I shoot skeet the more convinced I am that it is the greatest game ever devised for the users of shotguns. Skeet has brought home to shooters the need of properly fitting guns and the benefit of straighter stocks

   1932, Charles Askins, “Notes on skeet”, in Outdoor Life, page 40

   To Mrs. Gertrude Hurlbutt, Montana rancher’s wife, went a $100 prize in 1926 from National Sportsman and Hunting and Fishing magazines for christening their newly sponsored shotgun sport “skeet” – Scandinavian derivation, meaning “to shoot.”

   [1940, “In the Spring—Skeet”, in Scientific American, page 363

   Skeet started informally in 1920 as off-season practice for bird hunting, so it needed few rules. It became more formally organized in 1926 when the National Skeet Shooting Association (NSSA) was formed.

   2007, King Heiple, Mastering Skeet, page 163

2. countablecard gamesA hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.
3. slanguncountableAfrican-American VernacularThe ejaculation of semen.
4. NewfoundlandcountableslangLabradorA young working-class person who may be loud, disruptive and poorly educated.

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   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.

   [2010, Sandra Clarke, Newfoundland and Labrador English, page 151

present singular third person skeets · participle present skeeting · participle past skeeted · past skeeted

1. ambitransitiveTo shoot or spray.

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

   2004, Camika C Spencer, He Had It Coming, page 160

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   ‘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.’

   1940, Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, page 203

2. slangvulgarAfrican-American VernacularTo ejaculate.

   "Good, then," I said, my joint about to skeet like a water pistol. I was surprised too. I was known for having supreme dick control, and I could usually last a lot longer than this.

   2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 17

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   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).

   2002 October 8, “Get Low” (track 19), in Kings of Crunk, performed by Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz

   I just don’t understand how women get pregnant nowadays, especially while they have no intention on making a baby, […] yet and still letting some dude, boyfriend, or friend with benefits slide in for a 7-10 split, and not exactly advising him to pull out before he accidentally skeets .

   2011, Deborah Carter, Wildflower, Lulu/self-published, →ISBN, page 177

plural skeets

1. obsoleteA long-handled shovel or scoop.

   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.

   My work and labor shall be to tell what is this ooze of the deadly sins, and how they shall cast out this ooze, first with the skeet of contrition and after with the spade of confession, and then shovel out the crumbs cleanly with the shovel of satisfaction.

   c. 1440, Arthur Brandeis, editor, Jacob's well : an Englisht treatise on the cleansing of man's conscience, published 1900, page 2

2. nauticalA scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck.First known use 17th century

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   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

   1862, Vanderdecken [William Cooper], The Yacht Sailor, page 131

present singular third person skeets · participle present skeeting · participle past skeeted · past skeeted

1. datednauticalTo wet the sails or deck of a vessel.

   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

   1870, Henry Coleman Folkard, The Sailing Boat, page 161

1. uncountableIsle of Mannews or gossip

present singular third person skeets · participle present skeeting · participle past skeeted · past skeeted

1. Isle of Manto spy through the front windows of somebody else's house

plural skeets

1. InternetA post on the Bluesky social media platform.

   My last ‘toot’, as Mastodon’s users call tweets, was in December. I’ve never even done a ‘skeet’, the unfortunate name of the Bluesky version.

   2023 July 22, Max Chafkin, “What if the next big social media app is ... Nothing?”, in Irish Examiner, Cork

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   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.

   [2023 April 29, Sheera Frenkel, “Interest Builds Over Bluesky, A Social Site Akin to Twitter”, in New York Times, page B3

   At first, it was kind of fun when Bluesky broke.[…] When threading broke – causing people to receive tonnes of notifications if they replied to a long enough chain of skeets – users created the "hellthread", an infinitely long, chaotic conversation

   2023 June 10, Annalee Newitz, “And now for something completely familiar”, in New Scientist, volume 258, page 22

   Bluesky’s faithful have playfully dubbed posts “skeets” in contrast to tweets – although Bluesky’s own CEO Jay Graber has begged users to stop using that term.

   [2024 July 2, “X alternative Bluesky finally opens up for all: What’s the hype about?”, in Indian Express, Mumbai

   Another skeet! Blue Sky^([sic]) is clearly taking off – not content with picking up a million new accounts on Friday, and another million on Saturday, it has now played its part in two posts on the OBO.

   2024 November 17, Tim de Lisle, “West Indies v England: fifth men’s T20 cricket international – match abandoned”, in The Guardian

present singular third person skeets · participle present skeeting · participle past skeeted · past skeeted

1. InternetTo create a skeet.

   Bluesky is a bit like the retro Twitter, same colour scheme, similar way of building content etc, and so it reminds people of early Twitter. I am not sure if that’s enough to make people fall in love with Bluesky and go skeeting all day.

   2024 February 9, Ubaid Zargar, quoting Naresh Gupta, “Is Jack Dorsey's Bluesky another Threads in the making?”, in afaqs!, Mumbai

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   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.

   2023 May 1, “Yellen Predicts Debt Limit Could Be Reached By June”, in The Lead with Jake Tapper, spoken by Jake Tapper