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crosshairs

crosshairs noun: a set of two perpendicular lines in the sight of a firearm, used to align the gun with the target. Also the plural of crosshair.

Noun

crosshairs

  1. A set of two perpendicular lines in the sight of a firearm, used to align the gun with the target.
    • Industry experts are concerned that if the railway doesn't change tack, it would soon find itself out of step with the needs of the nation and in the crosshairs of a Treasury looking to slash spending.2021 October 20, Ben Jones, “The benefits of (and barriers to) more leisure travel by rail”, in RAIL, number 942, page 32

Also used as

crosshairs is also the plural of crosshair.

crosshairs is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of crosshair.

Words formed from crosshairs

Questions about crosshairs

What does crosshairs mean?
Crosshairs means a set of two perpendicular lines in the sight of a firearm, used to align the gun with the target.
What part of speech is crosshairs?
Crosshairs is a noun.

Words near crosshairs in the dictionary

  1. crossguard
  2. crossguards
  3. crosshair
  4. crosshaired
  5. crosshairing
  6. crosshairs
  7. crosshanded
  8. crosshandedly
  9. crosshandedness
  10. crosshatch
  11. crosshatched

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