Usually means: Attempt with low probability of success.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word long shot:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. long shot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. long shot: Merriam-Webster
  3. long shot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. long shot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. long shot: Collins English Dictionary
  6. long shot: Vocabulary.com
  7. Long-shot, long-shot: Wordnik
  8. long shot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. long shot: Wiktionary
  10. long shot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. long shot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. long shot: Dictionary.com
  13. Long Shot (Baillie & the Boys song), Long Shot (Kelly Clarkson song), Long Shot, Long shot (disambiguation), Long shot, The Long Shot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. long shot: Rhymezone
  15. long shot: FreeDictionary.org
  16. long shot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. long shot: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. long shot: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. long shot: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. long shot, long shot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. long shot: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. long shot (LS): Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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Definitions from Wiktionary (long shot)

noun:  A shot fired at a distant target.
noun:  (idiomatic) Something unlikely; something that has little chance of happening or working.
noun:  (film) A master shot, the primary wide shot of a scene into which the closeups will be edited later.

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