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skeet /skiːt /(also skeet shooting) noun [mass noun] North AmericanA shooting sport in which a clay target is thrown from a trap to simulate the flight of a bird.These events are an opportunity for the team to invite friends, family and others to try trapshooting, skeet and sporting clays....- Fausti guns are popular with trap, skeet and sporting clays competitors and, of course, with hunters.
- That's big news for all those skeet, clay and trap shooters.
Origin 1920s: apparently a pseudo-archaic alteration of the verb shoot. Rhymes accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat |