a form of trapshooting in which two traps are used and targets are hurled singly or in pairs at varying elevations and speeds so as to simulate the angles of flight taken by game birds.
Also called skeet shooting.
Origin: adopted in 1926 as the result of a contest to choose a name for the sport (the winner claimed that the word was “a very old form” of shoot1)
n. a blob of nasal mucus. (Collegiate. See also skeet-shooting.) : God, Fred, there's a gross skeet hanging outa your nose!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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skeet-shooting
n. the act of blowing one's nose by pinching one nostril and using no tissue or handkerchief. (See also skeet.) : There is nothing more disgusting than a bunch of college boys belching and skeet-shooting.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History
skeet
form of trapshooting, 1926, a name chosen as "a very old form of our present word 'shoot.' " Perhaps O.N. skotja "to shoot" (see shoot) was intended.
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