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headshotting

headshotting is the present participle and gerund of headshot.

Meaning of headshot

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

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Questions about headshotting

What is headshotting the present participle and gerund of?
Headshotting is the present participle and gerund of headshot.

Words near headshotting in the dictionary

  1. headshop
  2. headshops
  3. headshot
  4. headshots
  5. headshotted
  6. headshotting
  7. headshrink
  8. headshrinker
  9. headshrinkers
  10. headshrinks
  11. headshunt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: headshotting (page history and authors); headshot (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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