"skeeter" meaning in English

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          "word": "skeeter hawk"
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          "word": "skeeter syndrome"
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          "ref": "1973, “Swamp Witch”, in Jim Stafford (lyrics), Jim Stafford, performed by Jim Stafford:",
          "text": "One day brought the rain and the rain stayed on\nAnd the swamp water overflowed.\nSkeeters and the fever grabbed the town like a fist\nDoctor Jackson was the first to go.",
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        "A mosquito."
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        "(US, informal) A mosquito."
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  "word": "skeeter"
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    {
      "form": "skeetering",
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    {
      "form": "skeetered",
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      "form": "skeetered",
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          "ref": "1975, Frank Trippett, Child Ellen, page 342:",
          "text": "They skeetered out and then made an elegant racing turn and skeetered directly into her.",
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          "ref": "2010, Michael D. Langan, When I Was a Boy, →ISBN, page 25:",
          "text": "The iceman skeetered here and there, with his brown gabardine trousers dripping over his work shoes and drooping from his hip-less waist.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Michael Asher, Sands of Death: An Epic Tale Of Massacre And Survival In The Sahara, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Bullets skeetered across the rocks, snapping off fragments in deadly shrapnel bursts, gouging furrows in the serir around the advancing men.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call:",
          "text": "A twilight fox skeetered across the car park.",
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        "To skitter."
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        "A mosquito."
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        "(US, informal) A mosquito."
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          "text": "The iceman skeetered here and there, with his brown gabardine trousers dripping over his work shoes and drooping from his hip-less waist.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2011, Michael Asher, Sands of Death: An Epic Tale Of Massacre And Survival In The Sahara, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Bullets skeetered across the rocks, snapping off fragments in deadly shrapnel bursts, gouging furrows in the serir around the advancing men.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "text": "A twilight fox skeetered across the car park.",
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        "To skitter."
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