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dead shots

dead shots is the plural of dead shot.

Meaning of dead shot

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

Questions about dead shots

What is dead shots the plural of?
Dead shots is the plural of dead shot.

Words near dead shots in the dictionary

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

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