7 → give something your best shot 8 → be a long shot 9 → a 10 to 1 shot/50 to 1 shot etc 10 → a shot in the dark 11 critical remark a remark that is intended to criticize or hurt someone I’m not going to sit here listening to you two take shots at each other all night. The network finally gave Keaton a shot at presenting his own show. I didn’t think I had much chance of winning the race, but I thought I’d give it a shot (=try to do it ). I decided to have a shot at decorating the house myself. If Lewis won his next fight, he would be guaranteed a shot at the title (=chance to win the title ). 6 attempt informal TRY TO DO OR GET something an attempt to do something or achieve something, especially something difficult shot at (doing) something This is her first shot at directing a play. action shots of football players (=ones taken of people while they are moving ) → mugshot 5 film/tv TCP AMF the view of something in a film or television programme that is produced by having the camera in a particular position In the opening shot, we see Travolta’s feet walking down the sidewalk. We hired a photographer to take some publicity shots. Good shot! 4 TCP PICTURE photograph a photograph SYN picture shot of a close-up shot of a demonstrator being beaten by a policeman I managed to get some good shots of the carnival. 2 bullets a) PMW small metal balls that are shot, many at a time, from a shotgun b) old use PMW large metal balls that are shot from a cannon 3 attempt to score DS an attempt in sport to throw, kick, or hit the ball towards the place where you can get a point Shaw took a shot at the goal from the halfway line, but missed. b) SOUND the sound of a gun being fired Where were you when you heard the shot? c) a good/bad etc shot DS someone who is good, bad etc at shooting Sergeant Cooper is an excellent shot. She was killed by a single shot to the head. S2 W2 noun 1 SHOOT gun a) an act of firing a gun He pulled out his rifle and fired three shots.Grant plays a man whose companion, played by Zelijko Ivanek, is dying of AIDS.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Sport, Weapons, Photography, Film, Drink shot shot 1 / ʃɒt $ ʃɑːt / Our Sons, a made-for-television movie starring Grant, Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret, is about two mothers and their gay sons. Orders for Our Sons have jumped 30 percent in just days, reports Atlantic Entertainment, the distribution arm of Atlantic Studios Corp., said Friday. The publicity surrounding British actor Hugh Grant’s recent arrest on charges of having sex with a prostitute has boosted video sales of one of his little-known TV movies. Little-known Grant movie in big demand on video Filter is scheduled to appear at the Edge in Orlando on Saturday. 22, 1987, one day before he was to be sentenced in a bribery-conspiracy scandal. ![]() Dwyer shot himself at a news conference on Jan. ![]() The song, which doesn’t name Pennsylvania’s former treasurer, was meant as “an expression of the guts and determination of a person standing up for what they believe is right,” band members Richard Patrick and Brian Leisgang said in a statement. ![]() Budd Dwyer’s widow, Joanne, is upset about the song and said the family plans to protest to the record company, Reprise Records of Burbank, Calif. The rock group Filter insists its hit song, “Hey Man Nice Shot,” pays tribute to the former state official who killed himself at a news conference.
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