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Some people got the idea it has something to do with some song because (not an actual dictionary) Urban Dictionary said so when the actual meaning is "sky tweet."


They need to come up with their own term or confirm they are OK that the name skeet is a sex act. You don't get to just pretend the term doesn't exist because you didn't listen to one of the most popular songs of that decade using an already well established term. It's also heavily used in one of the most popular comedy shows of that decade as well The meaning is well established


I mean, the CEO of bsky used skeet unironically in interviews so I'd say it's a-ok


> (not an actual dictionary) Urban Dictionary

<troll> The definition of dictionary is just "Words about words" (source: Urban Dictionary), so I'd say that Urban Dictionary qualifies. </troll>


UD has been quoted in court cases, it's absolutely a dictionary.


UD documents existing connotations of words and expressions. That you don't think it's an actual dictionary doesn't change the fact that those connotations exist.

"sky tweet" is also a stupid name since a tweet is already the name for a post on a very specific platform.


I'm not sure I get why "sky tweet" is a stupid name. "Tweet" was a pretty arbitrarily chosen name for a post on Twitter, but now that "tweet" is a pretty established word, it seems reasonable to use a portmanteau based on that word for a platform based on that platform.

Though in practice I think "skeet" was a bit of a fad to be provocative, and most people just call them tweets, even on bluesky.


The song didn’t create the word, it just popularized a word that was already in use when the song came out.


> not an actual dictionary

Go on, tell us what you think an "actual dictionary" is.


hah, good one




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