Potshot

Quick meaning: Potshot is a noun meaning A shot taken at an easy or random target.

Meaning

A shot taken at an easy or random target.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.
2. To fire potshots.
3. simple past and past participle of potshoot
4. (obsolete, slang) Drunk.

Example Sentences

to take a potshot at

Bannister leaped up, ran lightly across the intervening space, and with his repeater took a potshot at the galloping horseman.

He takes his share of potshots (mostly at the Da Vinci surgical robot), but the conscience of the film is in the stories of Essure, a procedure marketed to women as a hassle-free alternative to tubal ligation

And until recently, anyone could read his Facebook posts, which included vulgar potshots at Nancy Pelosi and her husband and a pronouncement that supporters of Joseph R. Biden Jr. suffered from a “mental affliction.”

Word Forms

• potshots
• pot shot
• pot-shot
• potshotting
• potshotted

Synonyms for potshot

Depending on context, synonyms include adrip, arseholed, bedrunken, befuddled, besotted, besotten.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pot shot, snapshot, dropshot, chipshot, cross-shot, air-shot.

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