Word.ws English Dictionary

snap shooting

snap shooting is the present participle and gerund of snap shoot.

Meaning of snap shoot

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

Questions about snap shooting

What is snap shooting the present participle and gerund of?
Snap shooting is the present participle and gerund of snap shoot.

Words near snap shooting in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: snap shooting (page history and authors); snap shoot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “snap shooting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/snap_shooting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.