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  • noun Plural form of skeeter.

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Examples

  • We-all's ben where the skeeters is that thick you've got to throw a stick into the air so as to see the sun and tell the time of day.

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • We-all's ben where the skeeters is that thick you've got to throw a stick into the air so as to see the sun and tell the time of day.

    TOO MUCH GOLD 2010

  • Malaria comes from 'skeeter bites and' skeeters is bugs!

    A Bad Business 2009

  • We-all's teen where the skeeters is that thick you've got to throw a stick into the air so as to see the sun and tell the time of day.

    Too Much Gold 1904

  • We are being inundated with "skeeters" right now from all the recent rain.

    The Fourth 2006

  • What works for us as far as the "skeeters" go is toothepaste on the bite (works for bees and wasps too) and a Benedrille.

    Insects, repellants and other folk tales 2004

  • He was particularly worried about the word "skeeters," and scratched it in the dirt one night while they were camped, to ask Joe's opinion.

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

  • It housed more myraids of fleas than the air outside supported "skeeters"; but we slept, unconscious of them all.

    The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • As there must have been a lot of 'skeeters' to do the kind of job that 'Smith's' face showed,

    Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • It housed more myraids of fleas than the air outside supported "skeeters"; but we slept, unconscious of them all.

    The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909

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