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sharpshooting

sharpshooting noun: highly accurate marksmanship. Also the present participle and gerund of sharpshoot.

Noun

sharpshooting (countable and uncountable, plural sharpshootings)

  1. Highly accurate marksmanship.
    • Daniel Boone's sharpshooting earned him a place in the annals of the American west.
    • Owing to a want of proper concert among ourselves, I think, the battle became a series of detached skirmishes and sharpshootings, continuing all day […]1856, credited to Edward O. C. Ord., Soldiering in Oregon

Also used as

sharpshooting is also the present participle and gerund of sharpshoot.

Forms of sharpshooting

pluralsharpshootings

Origin of sharpshooting

From sharp + shooting; see sharpshooter.

Questions about sharpshooting

What does sharpshooting mean?
Sharpshooting means highly accurate marksmanship.
What part of speech is sharpshooting?
Sharpshooting is a noun.
What is the plural of sharpshooting?
The plural of sharpshooting is sharpshootings.

Words near sharpshooting in the dictionary

  1. sharpset
  2. sharpshod
  3. sharpshoot
  4. sharpshooter
  5. sharpshooters
  6. sharpshooting
  7. sharpshootings
  8. sharpshoots
  9. sharpshot
  10. sharpsichord
  11. sharpster

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