Usually means: To fire a projectile weapon.
Definitions Related words Phrases (New!) Mentions Lyrics History Colors (New!)
We found 49 dictionaries that define the word shoot:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shoot: Merriam-Webster
  3. shoot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shoot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shoot: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shoot: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shoot, shoot: Wordnik
  8. shoot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Shoot: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. shoot: Wiktionary
  11. shoot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. shoot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. shoot: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. shoot: Dictionary.com
  15. shoot (n.), shoot (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. shoot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Shoot (Hellblazer), Shoot (Mad Men), Shoot (advertising magazine), Shoot (disambiguation), Shoot (film), Shoot (football magazine), Shoot (professional wrestling), Shoot, The Shoot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Shoot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. shoot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. shoot: Rhymezone
  21. shoot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. shoot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. shoot: FreeDictionary.org
  24. shoot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. shoot: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. shoot: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoot: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoot: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. shoot: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. SHOOT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. Shoot, shoot: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. shoot: Natural History Terms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoot, shoot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shoot: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Shoot: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. shoot: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shoot: Card Games

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See shooting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To launch a projectile.
verb:  (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
verb:  (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
verb:  (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
verb:  (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
verb:  (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
verb:  (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
verb:  (gambling) To throw dice.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
verb:  (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
verb:  (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To dismiss or do away with.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
verb:  (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
verb:  To move or act quickly or suddenly.
verb:  (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
verb:  To go over or pass quickly through.
verb:  (surfing) To ride a wave.
verb:  (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
verb:  (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
verb:  (obsolete) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
verb:  To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
verb:  (informal, ditransitive) To send to someone.
verb:  (sports) To act or achieve.
verb:  (wrestling) To lunge.
verb:  (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
verb:  To make the stated score.
verb:  (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
verb:  To develop, move forward.
verb:  To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
verb:  To grow; to advance.
verb:  (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
verb:  (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
verb:  To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
verb:  To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
verb:  (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
verb:  To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
verb:  (card games) To shoot the moon.
verb:  (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
verb:  To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
verb:  To drink (a shot of an alcoholic beverage).
noun:  The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
noun:  A photography session.
noun:  A hunt or shooting competition.
noun:  (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
noun:  The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
noun:  A rush of water; a rapid.
noun:  (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
noun:  A shoat; a young pig.
noun:  (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
noun:  An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
noun:  (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
noun:  A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    olive,     khaki,     camouflage green,     forest green,     army green, more...



Word origin

Words similar to shoot

Usage examples for shoot

Idioms related to shoot

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing shoot

Words that often appear near shoot

Rhymes of shoot

Invented words related to shoot

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    olive,     khaki,     camouflage green,     forest green,     army green, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.





Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Help


Threepeat

Find common ground

Play Now

Compound Your Joy

Find connection

Play Now

Pandergram

Foster inclusion

Play Now