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tongueshot

tongueshot noun: the distance within which a person's voice can be heard.

Noun

tongueshot (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) The distance within which a person's voice can be heard.
    • […] the pantry was within tongueshot of the dining room […]2000, Randall Beth Platt, The 1898 Base-ball Fe-as-ko, page 191

Origin of tongueshot

Blend of tongue + earshot or from tongue + shot.

Questions about tongueshot

What does tongueshot mean?
Tongueshot means the distance within which a person's voice can be heard.
What part of speech is tongueshot?
Tongueshot is a noun.

Words near tongueshot in the dictionary

  1. tongues speakers
  2. tongues-speaker
  3. tongues-speakers
  4. tongues-speaking
  5. tonguesful
  6. tongueshot
  7. tonguester
  8. tonguesters
  9. tonguetied
  10. tonguetip
  11. tonguetips

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