skeeter

plural skeeters

1. USinformalA mosquito.

   One day brought the rain and the rain stayed on And the swamp water overflowed. Skeeters and the fever grabbed the town like a fist Doctor Jackson was the first to go.

   1973, “Swamp Witch”, in Jim Stafford (lyrics), Jim Stafford, performed by Jim Stafford

present singular third person skeeters · participle present skeetering · participle past skeetered · past skeetered

1. To skitter.

   A twilight fox skeetered across the car park.

   2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call

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   The tire bumped on gravel, skeetered across the road, crashed into a barrier and popped me like a cork onto pavement.

   1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

   They skeetered out and then made an elegant racing turn and skeetered directly into her.

   1975, Frank Trippett, Child Ellen, page 342

   The iceman skeetered here and there, with his brown gabardine trousers dripping over his work shoes and drooping from his hip-less waist.

   2010, Michael D. Langan, When I Was a Boy, →ISBN, page 25

   Bullets skeetered across the rocks, snapping off fragments in deadly shrapnel bursts, gouging furrows in the serir around the advancing men.

   2011, Michael Asher, Sands of Death: An Epic Tale Of Massacre And Survival In The Sahara, →ISBN

plural skeeters

1. A participant in skeet shooting.

   Last year, the much discussed and unusually successful Midwest was conducted by members of the Firestone group and attracted skeeters from all parts of the country […]

   1938, Hunting and Fishing (volume 16, page 42)

1. A surname.

1. Southern USA popular nickname for individuals with various different first names.