sharpshooting

English

Etymology

sharp + shooting; see sharpshooter.

Noun

sharpshooting (countable and uncountable, plural sharpshootings)

  1. 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

sharpshooting

  1. present participle and gerund of sharpshoot
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