shooting shot | the act of firing a projectile, his shooting was slow but accurate |
skeet skeet shooting trapshooting | the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird |
shooting | killing someone by gunfire, when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies |
drive-by shooting | shooting someone from a car as it is driven past the victim |
wing shooting | shooting game birds that are flying (on the wing) |
crap shooting crapshoot crap game | playing craps |
pistol handgun side arm shooting iron | a firearm that is held and fired with one hand |
shooting brake | another name for a station wagon |
shooting gallery shooting range | an enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice |
shooting gallery | a building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin |
shooting lodge shooting box | a small country house used by hunters during the shooting season |
shooting stick | device that resembles a spiked walking stick but the top opens into a seat |
shooting script | the final detailed script for making a movie or TV program |
brag bragging crow crowing vaporing line-shooting gasconadea | an instance of boastful talk, his brag is worse than his fight, whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade |
shooting preserve | a preserve on which hunting is permitted during certain months of the year |
meteor shooting star | a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode |
sure as shooting | absolutely certain, it is sure as shooting that they will come |
surely certainly sure for sure for certain sure enough sure as shooting | definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'), the results are surely encouraging, she certainly is a hard worker, it's going to be a good day for sure, they are coming, for certain, they thought he had been killed sure enough, he'll win sure as shooting, they sure smell good, sure he'll come |