clay pigeon

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   target used in skeet or trapshooting

   Broadertarget

Questions about clay pigeon

What does clay pigeon mean?

clay pigeon means "target used in skeet or trapshooting".

Is clay pigeon a common word?

clay pigeon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.