sharpshooting
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
sharp + shooting; see sharpshooter.
Noun[edit]
sharpshooting (countable and uncountable, plural sharpshootings)
- Highly accurate marksmanship.
- Daniel Boone's sharpshooting earned him a place in the annals of the American west.
- 1856, credited to Edward O. C. Ord., Soldiering in Oregon
- Owing to a want of proper concert among ourselves, I think, the battle became a series of detached skirmishes and sharpshootings, continuing all day […]
Verb[edit]
sharpshooting
- present participle and gerund of sharpshoot