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cheap-shotting

cheap-shotting is the present participle and gerund of cheap-shot.

Meaning of cheap-shot

Verb

cheap-shot (third-person singular simple present cheap-shots, present participle cheap-shotting, simple past and past participle cheap-shotted)

  1. (transitive) To take a cheap shot at (an opponent).

Questions about cheap-shotting

What is cheap-shotting the present participle and gerund of?
Cheap-shotting is the present participle and gerund of cheap-shot.

Words near cheap-shotting in the dictionary

  1. cheap-jack
  2. cheap-jacks
  3. cheap-shot
  4. cheap-shots
  5. cheap-shotted
  6. cheap-shotting
  7. cheap-skate
  8. cheap-skates
  9. cheapass
  10. cheapasses
  11. cheapdate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheap-shotting (page history and authors); cheap-shot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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