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outshoot

outshoot verb: to score more goals than the other side in a goal sport such as hockey or soccer.

Verb

outshoot (third-person singular simple present outshoots, present participle outshooting, simple past and past participle outshot)

  1. (US) To score more goals than the other side in a goal sport such as hockey or soccer
    • Boston outshot New York by 16-10, including by 8-3 in the first half, but Gao Hong, the Power's goaltender, covered her zone impressively.2001 June 4, Andrew R. Tripaldi, “SOCCER; Despite Being Outshot, the Power Upends the Breakers”, in The New York Times
  2. (transitive) To fire a gun more accurately than.
    • "I can outdrink, outsmoke and outshoot any man in this bar!" exclaimed the cowboy.

Forms of outshoot

third-person singular presentoutshoots
present participleoutshooting
past participleoutshot
pastoutshot
alternative formout-shoot

Past tense of outshoot: outshot

Origin of outshoot

From out- + shoot.

Questions about outshoot

What does outshoot mean?
Outshoot means to score more goals than the other side in a goal sport such as hockey or soccer.
What part of speech is outshoot?
Outshoot is a verb.
What is the past tense of outshoot?
The past tense of outshoot is outshot.

Words near outshoot in the dictionary

  1. outshines
  2. outshining
  3. outshinings
  4. outshone
  5. outshook
  6. outshoot
  7. outshooting
  8. outshoots
  9. outshop
  10. outshopped
  11. outshopping

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