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TRAPSHOOTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trapshooting mean?
• TRAPSHOOTING (noun)
The noun TRAPSHOOTING has 1 sense:
1. the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird
Familiarity information: TRAPSHOOTING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
skeet; skeet shooting; trapshooting
Hypernyms ("trapshooting" is a kind of...):
shoot (the act of shooting at targets)
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