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Long shot
Something unlikely; something that has little chance of happening or working.
📖 Definitions of "Long shot"
noun
- 1
Something unlikely; something that has little chance of happening or working.
"We can try your plan, but it's a long shot and it probably won't work."
- 2
A master shot, the primary wide shot of a scene into which the closeups will be edited later.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Long shot"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| outernoun | An outer part. |
| pot shotnoun | Alternative spelling of potshot. [A shot taken at an easy or random target.] |
| backshotnoun | (Caribbean, Jamaica, MLE, MTE, slang) A sexual position in which one partner penetrates the other from behind; doggy style. |
| pop shotnoun | A quickly aimed or haphazard shot with a firearm. |
| bell shotnoun | (hunting, firearms) A shot at an animal's head taken diagonally from behind. |
| airshootnoun | (architecture) A channel for providing ventilation. |
| gunshotnoun | (countable) The act of discharging a firearm. |
| shotnoun | The result of launching a projectile or bullet. |
| snipenoun | Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak. |
| snipingnoun | A shooting from a concealed place. |
| scattergunnoun | (firearms, informal) Synonym of shotgun. |
| indirect firenoun | The aiming and firing of a projectile without relying on a direct line of sight between the weapon and its target, especially at either very close ranges (such as mortar fire) or very far ranges (up to the limits of artillery range); the trajectories involved are steeper. |
| angle shootingnoun | (slang) Unethical behavior that is not clearly prohibited. |
| snap shotnoun | (field hockey or ice hockey) A quick shot executed by moving the stick parallel to the ground and ending with a snap of the wrist. |
| snapshotnoun | A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden moment of opportunity. |
| shootnoun | The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant. |
| enfiladenoun | A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line. |
| meatshotnoun | (video games, in online FPS gaming) A shot, from a shotgun or scattergun, all of whose bullets strike the enemy, usually from a very short to point-blank range. |
| hot shotnoun | A lethal injection of heroin or another opiate. |
| close rangenoun | A short distance between a weapon and a target. |
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