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nose-shot

nose-shot is the alternative form of noseshot.

Meaning of noseshot

Noun

noseshot (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) A range of smell, a distance in which something is detectable by smell.
    • As she approached closer, though, the load of rabbits came into vivid noseshot, and the saxophonist's nose wrinkled at the reek.2002, Michael Meehan, Stormy weather, page 74

Questions about nose-shot

What is nose-shot the alternative form of?
Nose-shot is the alternative form of noseshot.

Words near nose-shot in the dictionary

  1. nose-pickers
  2. nose-picking
  3. nose-pickings
  4. nose-picks
  5. nose-ringed
  6. nose-shot
  7. nose-suspended
  8. nose-to-nose
  9. nosean
  10. noseans
  11. noseart

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nose-shot (page history and authors); noseshot (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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