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Definition shoot

Etymology 1

From Middle English shoten, from Old English sc?otan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutan?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”). Cognate with West Frisian sjitte, Low German scheten, Dutch schieten, German schießen, Danish skyde, Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Norwegian Nynorsk skyta, Swedish skjuta; and also, through Indo-European, with Russian ??????? (kidát?), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian ????‎ (?ost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs.

Verb

shoot (third-person singular simple present shoots, present participle shooting, simple past shot, past participle shot or (rare) shotten)

1. To launch a projectile.
   1. (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
   2. (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
   3. (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
   4. (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
   5. (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
   6. (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
   7. (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
   8. (transitive, figuratively) To dismiss or do away with.
   9. (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
   10. (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
2. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
   1. (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
   2. To go over or pass quickly through.
   3. (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
   4. (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
   5. (obsolete, intransitive) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
   6. (obsolete) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
   7. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
   8. (informal, transitive) To send to someone.
3. (sports) To act or achieve.
   1. (wrestling) To lunge.
   2. (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
   3. To make the stated score.
4. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
5. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
6. To develop, move forward.
   1. To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
   2. To grow; to advance.
   3. (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
   4. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
7. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
8. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
9. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.

Noun

shoot (plural shoots)

1. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
2. A photography session.
3. A hunt or shooting competition.
4. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
5. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
6. A rush of water; a rapid.
7. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
8. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
9. A shoat; a young pig.
10. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.

Etymology 2

Minced oath for shit.

Interjection

shoot

1. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain

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