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(archery) five ends, of six arrows each, shot at each of three distances
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Alternative form of angle shooter [(slang, poker) A player who uses unfair tricks to gain advantage; one who angle-shoots.]
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(sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
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A sport in which a competitor throws an axe at a target, attempting to hit the bullseye as near as possible.
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A gelatin formulation designed to resemble muscle tissue and used to gauge the effects of bullet wounds.
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A person who has expertise in the field of ballistics
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One who takes part in batfowling.
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(sports) A shooting sport in which very accurate and precise rifles are shot at paper targets.
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One who takes part in benchrest shooting.
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A fast military offensive, typically involving a large and highly mobile tank force with air support.
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(childish) In children's games of marbles, the mode of play where one player attempts to drop a marble from above in order to hit a marble on the ground.
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The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
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Alternative spelling of cheap shot [A deliberate, unsportsmanlike, and potentially illegal act of aggression against an opponent.]
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Serving to prevent the shots of snipers.
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A competitive shooting sport that originated in southern California in the early 1980s, in which competitors use various different kinds of gun in Old West-themed courses, aiming for time and accuracy.
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An expert marksman with a gun.
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A very accurate marksman.
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(in the plural) 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
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(shooting) An event in which two clay targets are simultaneously released in front of the shooter.
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(gaming) In first-person shooters, the act of quickly switching from a standing position to a prone position while shooting at an opponent.
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(non-native speakers' English) A first-person shooter.
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The final lap of a race, in which a gun is fired when the race leader begins the lap
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A gunfight; a battle involving gunfire
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(informal, statistics) A statistical trend in a graph of survey data in which most of the results are flat and then the graph suddenly peaks in a steep near-vertical direction.
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A circus performer who is launched from a specially designed cannon.
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A sport in which players try to shoot the opposition using an infrared-sensitive gun.
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Small balls of lead, used as projectiles in shotguns, and as a weight in angling etc
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To engage in the sport of paintball.
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A participant in paintball.
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A person who shoots at makeshift targets.
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An Olympic shooting event, competed at 25 meter range.
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(idiomatic, games) A deadly game in which a person loads a single bullet in the cylinder of a revolver, spins the cylinder so that the bullet's location is unknown, points the muzzle at his/her head, and pulls the trigger. In its most lethal form, played by multiple participants each of whom takes a turn until the weapon discharges.
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A "marksmen's festival": a traditional festival or fair in Germany or Switzerland, featuring a target-shooting competition.
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A proconiine (type of leafhopper).
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Highly accurate marksmanship.
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A hunt or shooting competition.
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Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
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A carnival game typically featuring a pellet gun and numerous moving mechanical tracks with small targets to be shot for prizes.
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A competition in shooting
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A social event consisting of, usually among other things, shooting game
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A female shooter; a markswoman; an archeress.
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(sports) The skill of making accurate shots
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(uncountable) A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
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The sport of shooting skeets.
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One who shoots from a concealed position.
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A sport where the player attempts to shoot clay pigeon targets at a series of stations along a course.
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(idiomatic) A person who is fair, trustworthy, or forthright; a person who bargains or transacts business in a fair, honest manner.
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Alternative form of square shooter [(idiomatic) A person who is fair, trustworthy, or forthright; a person who bargains or transacts business in a fair, honest manner.]
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(US, slang) Synonym of Saturday-night special (“an easily-obtained handgun”)
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Alternative form of supershot
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(sports) An assistant in the sport of paraswimming who taps blind or visually impaired swimmers with a pole to indicate when they should turn around.
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(archaic) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
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(sports, trap shooting) A small building from which targets are launched.
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The sport of shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons launched into the air, from a trap.
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A participant in the sport of trapshooting.
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The sport, similar to skeet, of shooting at thrown targets with a shotgun.
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(chiefly US) A hunt or hunting competition, using rifles or shotguns, in which wild turkeys are the prey; a marksmanship contest in which a turkey is the prize.
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Alternative form of turkey shoot [(chiefly US) A hunt or hunting competition, using rifles or shotguns, in which wild turkeys are the prey; a marksmanship contest in which a turkey is the prize.]
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Synonym of cowboy action shooting
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