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dead shot

dead shot noun: an unerring marksman.

Noun

dead shot (plural dead shots)

  1. An unerring marksman.
    • "He's a hard nail, is Jack, and a dead shot, too, but you can't leave a Grand National winner to die like that - what?"1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
    • “Forgot to tell you the other day that besides playing the Jew’s Harp, Atticus Finch was the deadest shot in Maycomb County in his time.”
      “Dead shot…” echoed Jem.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

dead shot meaning in Tamil

dead shot in Tamil

குறி தவறாது சுடுபவர்

Forms of dead shot

pluraldead shots

Questions about dead shot

What does dead shot mean?
Dead shot means an unerring marksman.
What is dead shot in Tamil?
Dead shot in Tamil is குறி தவறாது சுடுபவர். See Dead shot meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dead shot?
Dead shot is a noun.
What is the plural of dead shot?
The plural of dead shot is dead shots.

Words near dead shot in the dictionary

  1. dead section
  2. dead sections
  3. dead set
  4. dead set against
  5. dead sets
  6. dead shot
  7. dead shots
  8. dead silence
  9. dead silences
  10. dead sleep
  11. dead sleeps

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