snap-shootingn.
The practice of taking snapshots (see snapshot n. 1 and 2).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > other types of shooting
night shooting1850
rough-shooting1850
point shooting1857
cover-shooting1864
snap-shooting1872
rough shoot1889
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > type of firing
point and blank1590
false fire1602
potting1613
point-blank1614
running fire1629
pounding1633
bulleting1635
platooning1706
sharp-shot1725
street firing1727
ricochet1740
fire curtain1744
plunging fire1747
reverse fire1758
sniping1773
enfilade1796
rapid fire1800
line-firing1802
concentric1804
sharpshooting1806
rake1810
sniping fire1821
cross-firing1837
file-firing1837
curved fire1854
night firing1856
file-fire1857
volley-firing1859
cross-fire1860
joy-firing1864
snap-shooting1872
stringing1873
pot-shooting1874
indirect fire1879
sweeping1907
rapid1913
curtain of fire1916
ripple1939
ripple-firing1940
ripple fire1961
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > [noun] > manner of
flash-lighting1959
shutter priority1974
snap-shooting1979
zooming2005
1872 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 664 Snap shooting, as it is termed, is very effective sometimes by experienced gunners.
1883 Cent. Mag. Aug. 493 Snap-shooting is generally understood to consist in putting the gun to the shoulder and firing the instant it is in position.
1979 G. Macdonald Camera iv. 57 Snapshooting was..a..haphazard affair... Most snaps were still portraits of family and friends.
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