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- Dictionaryshoot/ʃuːt/
verb
- 1. kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow: "he was shot in the leg during an armed robbery" Similar
- 2. move suddenly and rapidly in a particular direction: "the car shot forward" Similar
noun
- 1. a young branch or sucker springing from the main stock of a tree or other plant: "he nipped off the new shoots that grew where the leaves joined the stems"
- 2. an occasion when a group of people hunt and shoot game for sport: "a grouse shoot"
exclamation
- 1. used as a euphemism for ‘shit’: informal North American "shoot, it was a great day to be alive"
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