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  • 1shoot — ► VERB (past and past part. shot) 1) kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow. 2) cause (a gun) to fire. 3) move suddenly and rapidly. 4) direct (a glance, question, or remark) at someone. 5) film or photograph (a scene, film,… …

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  • 2shoot — shoot1 [ ʃut ] (past tense and past participle shot [ ʃat ] ) verb *** ▸ 1 fire gun ▸ 2 in sports ▸ 3 move suddenly & quickly ▸ 4 take photographs etc. ▸ 5 put drug in body ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) intransitive or transitive to fire a gun: We were… …

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  • 3shoot — I UK [ʃuːt] / US [ʃut] verb Word forms shoot : present tense I/you/we/they shoot he/she/it shoots present participle shooting past tense shot UK [ʃɒt] / US [ʃɑt] past participle shot *** 1) [intransitive/transitive] to fire a gun We were ordered… …

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  • 4shoot — verb (past and past participle shot) 1》 kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow.     ↘cause (a gun) to fire.     ↘hunt game with a gun.     ↘(shoot someone/thing down) bring down an aircraft or person by shooting. 2》 move… …

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  • 5shoot down — verb 1. move quickly and violently (Freq. 1) The car tore down the street He came charging into my office • Syn: ↑tear, ↑shoot, ↑charge, ↑buck • See Also: ↑ …

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  • 6Shoot 'em up — For the film genre, see Western (genre). For the 2007 action film, see Shoot Em Up …

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  • 7Shoot (magazine) — Shoot, or Shoot Monthly, was a football magazine published in the UK by IPC Media. After nearly 40 years, it ceased publication at the end of June 2008. [ [http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/817286/Shoot closes weekly bid fails/ Shoot closes as… …

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  • 8shoot — [sho͞ot] vt. shot, shooting [ME shoten < OE sceotan, akin to ON skjōta, Ger schiessen < IE base * (s)keud , to throw, shoot > SHUT, OSlav is kydati, to throw out] 1. a) to move swiftly over, by, across, etc. [to shoot the rapids in a… …

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  • 9Shoot-the-Chutes — is an amusement ride consisting of a flat bottomed boat that slides down a ramp or inside a flume into a lagoon. The first of this type of amusement ride was built by J.P. Newberg in 1884 down the side of a hill at Watchtower Park in Rock Island …

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  • 10shoot yourself in the foot — informal phrase to say or do something stupid that causes you trouble The government seems to have shot itself in the foot over this issue. Thesaurus: to make a mistake, or to do something badlysynonym to cause problems for yourselfsynonym …

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