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shoot holes

shoot holes verb: find faults.

Verb

shoot holes (third-person singular simple present shoots holes, present participle shooting holes, simple past and past participle shot holes)

  1. (idiomatic) Find faults.
    • Anytime you want to shoot holes in our ideas, don't hesitate to do so.1952, Hope Angel, Illinois Education - Volume 41, Illinois Education Association, page 124
    • One by one, we can shoot holes through possible standards by which the Commission on Qualifications could evaluate nominees for the trial courts.1960, California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Constitutional Amendments, Digest of Testimony, The Committee, page 8

Forms of shoot holes

third-person singular presentshoots holes
present participleshooting holes
past participleshot holes
pastshot holes

Questions about shoot holes

What does shoot holes mean?
Shoot holes means find faults.
What part of speech is shoot holes?
Shoot holes is a verb.
What is the past tense of shoot holes?
The past tense of shoot holes is shot holes.

Words near shoot holes in the dictionary

  1. shoot fly
  2. shoot for the moon
  3. shoot for the stars
  4. shoot from the hip
  5. shoot from the lip
  6. shoot holes
  7. shoot it out
  8. shoot me
  9. shoot off
  10. shoot off at the mouth
  11. shoot off one's mouth

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