sharpshooting

noun

sharpshooting

noun

Etymology From sharp + shooting; see sharpshooter.

1

Highly accurate marksmanship.

  • Daniel Boone's sharpshooting earned him a place in the annals of the American west.
  • 1856, credited to Edward O. C. Ord., Soldiering in Oregon Owing to a want of proper concert among ourselves, I think, the battle became a series of detached skirmishes and sharpshootings, continuing all day […]

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