shooting
(ʃuːtɪŋ )
Word forms: shootings
1. countable noun B2
A shooting is an occasion when someone is killed or injured by being shot with a gun.
Two more bodies were found nearby after the shooting.
A gang war led to a series of shootings in the city.
2. uncountable noun regional note: in AM, use hunting
Shooting is hunting animals with a gun as a leisure activity. [British]
Grouse shooting begins in August.
3. uncountable noun
The shooting of a film is the act of filming it.
Ingrid was busy learning her lines for the next day's shooting.
The shooting of the film proceeded without a hitch.
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Idioms:
something is like shooting fish in a barrel
said to mean that one side in a battle or contest is so much stronger than the other that the weaker side has no chance at all of winning
I heard one case where some of the enemy soldiers had come out and they were saying it was like shooting fish in a barrel.
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be shooting for the same target
if two people are shooting for the same target, they are in agreement about what they are trying to achieve together
We'll only succeed if we're both shooting for the same target.
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the whole shooting match
the whole of something
I filled in my donor card, ticking the whole shooting-match, from kidneys to liver.
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Translations:
Chinese: 射击
Japanese: 射撃
- dildo
- dilemma
- dilemma lies
- dilettante
- diligence
- diligent
- diligently
- diligent research
- diligent student
- diligent study
- diligent work
- diligent worker
- dill
- dilute
- dilute a brand
- dilute liquid
- dilute solution
- dilute the effect
- dilute the impact
- dilute the message
- dilute the power
- dilute the return
- dilute the value
- dilution
- dilution