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skeet

Pronunciation: /skiːt/

(also skeet shooting)
Definition of skeet

noun

[mass noun] North American
  • a shooting sport in which a clay target is thrown from a trap to simulate the flight of a bird.

Origin:

1920s: apparently a pseudo-archaic alteration of the verb shoot

skeet in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of skeet in the US English dictionary
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