Definition of "skeeter"

One day brought the rain and the rain stayed onAnd the swamp water overflowed.Skeeters and the fever grabbed the town like a fistDoctor Jackson was the first to go.

1973, “Swamp Witch”, in Jim Stafford (lyrics), Jim Stafford, performed by Jim Stafford

They skeetered out and then made an elegant racing turn and skeetered directly into her.

1975, Frank Trippett, Child Ellen, page 342

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, 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

A twilight fox skeetered across the car park.

2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call