Skeet

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

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Pseudo-archaic alteration of shoot, perhaps with reference to Old Norse skjóta. [1]

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skeet (n.)

form of trapshooting, 1926, a name chosen as "a very old form of our present word 'shoot.' " Perhaps Old Norse skotja "to shoot" (see shoot (v.)) was intended.