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shooting

  • adjective
  • shoot·ing
  • /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/

Moving or growing quickly

Other meanings

  1. Of a pain, sudden and darting

Related words

  • angle-shooting
  • angle shooting
  • cowboy action shooting
  • crap shooting
  • drive by shooting
  • hip-shooting
  • instinct shooting
  • like shooting fish in a barrel
  • line shooting
  • mall shooting
  • mass shooting
  • nonshooting

Word history

From Old English "scotung".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “shooting” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.