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shooting through like a Bondi tram

shooting through like a Bondi tram is the present participle and gerund of shoot through like a Bondi tram.

Meaning of shoot through like a Bondi tram

Verb

shoot through like a Bondi tram (third-person singular simple present shoots through like a Bondi tram, present participle shooting through like a Bondi tram, simple past and past participle shot through like a Bondi tram)

  1. (Australia, colloquial, informal, simile) To leave in haste.
    • […] then he gets back into his jeep says good luck boys and shoots through like a Bondi tram.1945 April, John Scarlett, censored dispatch quoted in 2011, Fay Anderson, Richard Trembath, Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting, Melbourne University Press, page 197

Questions about shooting through like a Bondi tram

What is shooting through like a Bondi tram the present participle and gerund of?
Shooting through like a Bondi tram is the present participle and gerund of shoot through like a Bondi tram.

Words near shooting through like a Bondi tram in the dictionary

  1. shooting the messenger
  2. shooting the messenger boy
  3. shooting the moon
  4. shooting the shit
  5. shooting through
  6. shooting through like a Bondi tram
  7. shooting trouble
  8. shooting up
  9. shooting war
  10. shooting wars
  11. shooting-brake

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