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shooty

shooty adjective: involving the shooting of weapons.

Adjective

shooty (comparative more shooty, superlative most shooty)

  1. (informal) Involving the shooting of weapons.
    • the swingy, shooty theatrics of Bionic Commando2007, The Official Xbox Magazine: Issues 75-78
  2. (UK, dialectal) Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly.
    • Increases of auxin up to 12 mg L–1 did not alter the shooty morphology of the callus.2020, W. T. Frankenberger Jr., Muhammad Arshad, Phytohormones in Soils Microbial Production & Function

Forms of shooty

comparativemore shooty
superlativemost shooty

Origin of shooty

From shoot + -y.

Questions about shooty

What does shooty mean?
Shooty means involving the shooting of weapons.
What part of speech is shooty?
Shooty is an adjective.

Words near shooty in the dictionary

  1. shoots through
  2. shoots through like a Bondi tram
  3. shoots trouble
  4. shoots up
  5. shootward
  6. shooty
  7. shootynge
  8. shoowee
  9. shop
  10. shop around
  11. shop assistant

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