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snap shoot

snap shoot verb: to take aim and fire a weapon in quick succession.

Verb

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

  1. To take aim and fire a weapon in quick succession.
    • "I hope you'll overlook my shooting at you, but the orders are for all patrols to snap-shoot on sight."1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 131

Forms of snap shoot

third-person singular presentsnap shoots
present participlesnap shooting
past participlesnap shot
pastsnap shot

Questions about snap shoot

What does snap shoot mean?
Snap shoot means to take aim and fire a weapon in quick succession.
What part of speech is snap shoot?
Snap shoot is a verb.
What is the past tense of snap shoot?
The past tense of snap shoot is snap shot.

Words near snap shoot in the dictionary

  1. snap ring
  2. snap rings
  3. snap riveting
  4. snap roll
  5. snap rolls
  6. snap shoot
  7. snap shooting
  8. snap shoots
  9. snap shot
  10. snap shots
  11. snap someone's head off

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