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say it: skeet
skeet is a noun meaning "the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird". It is pronounced /ˈskit/ — skeet. It carries one recorded sense.
the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for skeet come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.