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Definition of Potshots
1. potshot [v] - See also: potshot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potshots
Literary usage of Potshots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1918)
""We don't want to have him taking potshots at you." The Kanaka grinned, which
was the nearest he ever came to actually laughing. ..."
2. Estudios entomológicos y parasitológicos by John Edwin Bakeless, Francis Peloubet Farquhar, David R. Iriarte, Justus Liebig, John Blyth (1863)
"potshots flashed from tangled thickets. Warriors dashed out in canoes from coves
along the shore, killed whom they could, scalped the dead, stole what they ..."
3. Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War (1893)
"Occasionally we passed a small opening, or savanna, on which were sometimes
feeding a herd of wild cattle and deer; at the latter we had several potshots, ..."
4. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society, John Harland, Manchester (England). Court-Leet (1861)
"... expounded to his most approved and improved Fellow-potshots; Touching the
houres before noone and after, usuall and lawfull. We are to observe whether ..."
5. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies: As Pleasingly Exemplified in Many by James McNeill Whistler (1904)
""But no, he never would ask—he liked his potshots at things; it used to give a
sort of sporting interest to his speculations upon pictures. ..."
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