In the US “sleet” is the term for a winter precipitation that occurs when snow falls through a layer of warm air and melts into water droplets, then re-freezes into ice pellets as it passes through colder air closer to the ground. In many other areas that were part of the British empire that precipitation is called “ice pellets” and “sleet” instead refers to a mix of snow and rain. In the US that’s called a “wintry mix.”

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    You’re thinking of skeet. Sleet is a type of minor roadway that leads to shops and apartments.

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      15 hours ago

      You’re thinking of street. Sleet is a type of sport shooting involving clay targets.

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      Real talk tho, when little John released that song, I assumed skeet was an attempt at creating a past-tense verb out of the noun scat, and he was talking about having explosive diarrhea in a hotel room (potentially from questionable food while on tour?)

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        This is the first time in my life that I’m seeing Lil Jon’s name spelt like that and it’s throwing me off.