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potshot

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7 lettersPart of speech nounSorted hoopsttStarts with PEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter)

Word origin

From pot + shot. 1858, shot taken for the (cooking) pot, namely for food; see pothunter. Sense “opportunistic criticism” from 1926. Sense “drunk” from obsolete pot (“cup used for drinking liquor”).

Used in a sentence

  • to take a potshot at
  • Bannister leaped up, ran lightly across the intervening space, and with his repeater took a potshot at the galloping horseman.
  • He takes his share of potshots (mostly at the Da Vinci surgical robot), but the conscience of the film is in the stories of Essure, a procedure marketed to women as a hassle-free alternative to tubal ligation

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