skeeter
verb1
To skitter.
- The tire bumped on gravel, skeetered across the road, crashed into a barrier and popped me like a cork onto pavement.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
- They skeetered out and then made an elegant racing turn and skeetered directly into her.1975, Frank Trippett, Child Ellen, page 342:
3 more examples
- The iceman skeetered here and there, with his brown gabardine trousers dripping over his work shoes and drooping from his hip-less waist.2010, Michael D. Langan, When I Was a Boy, →ISBN, page 25:
- Bullets skeetered across the rocks, snapping off fragments in deadly shrapnel bursts, gouging furrows in the serir around the advancing men.2011, Michael Asher, Sands of Death: An Epic Tale Of Massacre And Survival In The Sahara, →ISBN:
- A twilight fox skeetered across the car park.2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call: