skeet
pronunciation
How to pronounce skeet in British English:
UK [ski:t]
How to pronounce skeet in American English:
US [skit]
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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
Word Origin
- skeet (n.)
- form of trapshooting, 1926, a name chosen as "a very old form of our present word 'shoot.' " Perhaps Old Norse skotja "to shoot" (see shoot (v.)) was intended.
Example
- 1. Gun digest book of trap & skeet shooting .
- 2. Shotguns are used in trap and skeet shooting .
- 3. The nra spokesman also said an increased number of americans are participating in skeet shooting and other gun sports .
- 4. And my dad 's on the roof skeet shooting her franklin mint collectible plates .
- 5. Categories include rifle , pistol , running game target , target , trap and skeet .