skeet
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8.8
- noun
- /skit/
:
tiro al plato
- "My wife here is from an old Virginia family, and they do things like skeet shooting on a Saturday afternoon."
Camped, went fishing, skeet shooting down.
- Camped, went fishing, skeet shooting down.
- And and people showed me how to shoot skeet and next thing you know, I'm out there just Elmer fudding on them.
Examples
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Did some skeet shooting with my dad a few times, but, no, I never went hunting.
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Look, Drew, want to go skeet shooting with us?
Fiction book (1991) -
I believe you had a nice day of skeet shooting with him.
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Why, skeet shooting of course.
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Are you joining us for the skeet shoot?
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So if I want to go skeet shooting, I borrow guns from friends.
Blog text (19) -
Apparently, the skeet shooting I did in college as part of hunter's safety paid off.
Blog text (6) -
Did you see the American woman who won the gold medal in skeet?
Blog text (18) -
We would fish with my Papaw, shoot skeet, and the day always ended with a good ol' Texas-style catfish fry.
Blog text (30) -
Are you joining us for the skeet shoot this weekend?
Synonyms
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5.9
A sport where people shoot clay targets sent into the air like birds
A sport where people shoot at small clay targets sent into the air like flying birds
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word skeet for the shooting sport probably comes from a Scandinavian word meaning 'to shoot', so it is like the English word shoot and simply names the clay-target shooting game.