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Webster 1913 Edition


Sharpshooting

Sharp′shootˊing

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Noun.
A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.

Definition 2024


sharpshooting

sharpshooting

English

Noun

sharpshooting (plural sharpshootings)

  1. Highly accurate marksmanship.
    Daniel Boone's sharpshooting earned him a place in the annals of the American west.
    • Bret Harte
      Owing to a want of proper concert among ourselves, I think, the battle became a series of detached skirmishes and sharpshootings, continuing all day []

Verb

sharpshooting

  1. present participle of sharpshoot