shootverb
uk/ʃuːt/us/ʃuːt/shot, shotshoot verb (WEAPON)
B1 [ I or T ] to fire a bullet or an arrow, or to hit, injure, or kill a person or animal by firing a bullet or arrow at him, her, or it:
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- The prisoners were put up against a wall and shot.
- He was shot at close range.
- Inner-city riots erupted when a local man was shot by police.
- Three youths have been shot and killed in separate incidents this month.
- He was shot down in enemy territory.
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Guns
- cannon
- cannonade
- cannonball
- charge
- cock
- crossfire
- go off
- gunsmith
- kick
- machine gun
- ordnance
- plug
- point-blank
- potshot
- shooter
- shooting gallery
- shot
- sniper
- snub-nosed
- Taser
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shoot verb (SPORT)
B1 [ I ] to try to score points for yourself or your team, in sports involving a ball, by kicking, hitting, or throwing the ball towards the goal:
to play basketball
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- Callas feinted to pass the ball and then shot it into the net.
- Come on, shoot!
- The players seem afraid to shoot when they get near the goal.
- Again, he shoots wide of the net.
- You just have to seize the opportunity and shoot.
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General terms used in ball sports
- aggregate score
- assist
- attack
- back pass
- bobble
- center circle
- chip
- goalless
- holding
- lay
- layoff
- long ball
- man on! idiom
- man-to-man defense
- man-to-man marking
- overarm
- set piece
- sidespin
- unplayable
- wrong-foot
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shoot verb (MOVE QUICKLY)
C2 [ I usually + adv/prep ] to move in a particular direction very quickly and directly:
[ T ] to move through or past something quickly:
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- He suddenly got up and shot out of the room.
- She shot passed me just now.
- I'm just going to shoot off to the shops.
- Anyway, I'd better shoot - bye!
- Several runners had already shot past me.
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Moving quickly
- beetle
- belt
- bob
- bowl
- bowl down/along sth
- careen
- career
- gallop
- gun
- leg
- make off
- outran
- pelt
- rush
- scamper
- scoot
- scrabble
- scramble
- stampede
- trot
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shoot verb (FILM)
C1 [ I or T ] to use a camera to record a video or take a photograph:
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- Her last movie was shot on location in South America.
- Most of the scenes were shot in a studio.
- The urban scenes were shot in Manchester.
- He's just starting shooting his new movie.
- I shot a whole reel of film in the park.
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Cinema - general words
- 12A
- animation
- animator
- best boy
- Bollywood
- boom
- CGI
- filming
- filmstrip
- footage
- freeze-frame
- gaffer
- pan
- showing
- slide projector
- slow motion
- sound effect
- soundtrack
- storyboard
- the big screen 1
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shoot verb (PLAY)
[ T ] mainly US informal to play a game of pool or craps
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Card games
- bridge
- canasta
- card sharp
- deal
- dealer
- diamond
- discard
- flush
- grand slam
- jack
- joker
- pass
- pool
- royal flush
- rummy
- shuffle
- singleton
- solitaire
- strip poker
- suit
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shoot verb (DRUG)
[ T ] slang to take an illegal drug by injecting yourself with it:
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Drugs - general words
- chase
- chems
- crank
- detox
- dope
- doped up
- gear
- jacked up
- legal high
- OD
- overdose
- peddler
- pop
- snort
- soft
- spliff
- spliff up
- stoned
- trip
- whacked
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Idiom(s)
Phrasal verb(s)
shootnoun
uk/ʃuːt/us/ʃuːt/shoot noun (PLANT)
[ C ] the first part of a plant to appear above the ground as it develops from a seed, or any new growth on an already existing plant:
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New growth in plants
- bud
- coccygeus
- collateral
- colli
- colliculus
- collum
- commissure
- communis
- compartment
- complement system
- established
- eye
- sprout
- sucker
shoot noun (PHOTOGRAPHS)
[ C usually singular ] an occasion when photographers take a series of photographs, usually of the same person or people in the same place:
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Photography
- airbrush
- aperture
- camera
- camera obscura
- camera-shy
- capture
- exposure
- high-resolution
- hologram
- holography
- kinetoscope
- lo-res
- negative
- say cheese idiom
- selfie
- sharp
- shutter
- slide
- SLR camera
- snapshot
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shoot noun (WEAPON)
[ C ] an occasion on which a group of people go to an area of the countryside to shoot animals
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Hunting & fishing
- angler
- angling
- bait
- beater
- big game
- gun dog
- hare coursing
- harpoon
- hunt
- hunt saboteur
- pointer
- reel
- shooter
- sinker
- smoke
- smoke sb/sth out
- snare
- spoor
- trap
- troll
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shootexclamation
uk/ʃuːt/us/ʃuːt/informalused to tell someone that they should speak:
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Expressing and asking opinions
- apothegm
- ask
- come out
- couch
- day
- editorialize
- far
- for my money idiom
- pronounce
- propound
- put
- put yourself across
- remark
- run
- run sth by sb
- screed
- soapbox
- sound off
- talk
- talk sth over
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