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headshot

headshot noun: a portrait for branding or social media.

Noun

headshot (plural headshots)

  1. A portrait for branding or social media.
    • I went home, I changed, I went to Walgreens and printed out a headshot of me and signed it ‘from your favorite local news reporter,’ and I sat in the parking lot for four hours until she said, ‘Hey, your passes to go backstage are at will-call’.2023 November 6, Chris Willman, quoting Bryan West, “Gannett’s Taylor Swift Reporter, Revealed: Meet Bryan West, the First Full-Time Swiftie Journalist”, in Variety, archived from the original on 27...
  2. A gunshot to the head.
    • Smelling victory amongst the gunpowder Graeme started shooting off his mouth. “True Counter-Strikers like me don’t even count kills unless they’re headshots or a knife in the back of the nut…”2004 April, Computer and Video Games, number 271, page 24
  3. A one-page, double-sided resume of an actor, consisting of the actor's photograph (usually of the head and shoulders) on one side and their curriculum vitae on the other.

Verb

headshot (third-person singular simple present headshots, present participle headshotting, simple past and past participle headshotted)

  1. (slang, transitive) To kill (someone) by shooting them in the head.
    • SCOUTMASTER / HEADSHOTTED A SCOUT WITH THE BREECHSHOT.2013, Doug Walsh, Gears of War: Judgment, collector’s edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: DK/BradyGames, →ISBN, page 336
    • Everybody knows someone who feels left out when video games are being played. Maybe your girlfriend is bad at headshotting newbs in “Halo 4” or racing against you in “Gran Turismo,” but she could definitely play this.2013 May 1, Matt Grippi, “Battleblock Theater is insane, hilarious fun”, in Daily 49er, volume LIX, number 601, Long Beach, Calif.: California State University, Long Beach, page 5, column 3

headshot meaning in Urdu

headshot in Urdu

headshot
سر کشی sar kaśī

Forms of headshot

Noun
pluralheadshots
Verb
third-person singular presentheadshots
present participleheadshotting
past participleheadshotted
pastheadshotted

Plural of headshot: headshots

Origin of headshot

From head + shot.

Questions about headshot

What does headshot mean?
Headshot means a portrait for branding or social media.
What is headshot in Urdu?
Headshot in Urdu is سر کشی (sar kaśī). See Headshot meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is headshot?
Headshot can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of headshot?
The plural of headshot is headshots.

Words near headshot in the dictionary

  1. headshields
  2. headship
  3. headships
  4. headshop
  5. headshops
  6. headshot
  7. headshots
  8. headshotted
  9. headshotting
  10. headshrink
  11. headshrinker

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: headshot (page history and authors); سر کشی (Urdu) (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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