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Meanings of skeet in English

Catalan
tir al plat

The sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird.

tir al plat
Usage of skeet in English
1
I found it great fun and just as relaxing as skeet shooting.
The devil's touch
2
If I hear anything, I will send word at once, by skeet.'
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
3
Now skeet out ez fast ez the hosse's legs will tote ye.
The Red Acorn
4
Yossarian was as bad at shooting skeet as he was at gambling.
Catch-22
5
She now hopes to represent England in a skeet shooting competition in August.
BBC
6
A skeet was caged on the other side, to carry a message back.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
7
Shooting skeet eight hours a month was excellent training for them.
Catch-22
8
She headed in the other direction, out behind the skeet houses.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
9
Your report so alarmed Fyn-Mah that she sent it to me by skeet.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
10
It's essentially the underwater equivalent of skeet shooting, except with torpedoes.
Wired
11
Flydd sprang over the side, his eye on the wheeling skeet.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
12
He slapped the breech closed against his arm like he was skeet shooting.
Blue Moon
13
Nish fed the skeet with a couple of half-frozen rats from a bin.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
14
A messenger was hurrying out through the great doors, carrying a sealed skeet packet.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
15
So urgent, in fact, that it had come by skeet.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
16
The skeet was gliding towards the rear of the building.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
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Skeet through the time