"potshot" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: potshots [plural]
Etymology: pot + shot Etymology templates: {{compound|en|pot|shot}} pot + shot Head templates: {{en-noun}} potshot (plural potshots)
  1. A shot taken at an easy or random target.
    Sense id: en-potshot-en-noun-wzgfzp9Z Categories (other): English rhyming compounds Disambiguation of English rhyming compounds: 19 42 39
  2. Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot. Translations (criticism of an easy target): halpa kritiikki (Finnish), Seitenhieb [masculine] (German) Translations (shot at an easy target or at random): изстрел отблизо (izstrel otblizo) (Bulgarian), räiskäisy (english: one) (Finnish), räiskintä (english: many) (Finnish), Schuss aufs Geratewohl [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-potshot-en-noun-shhRvYnj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English rhyming compounds Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 66 30 Disambiguation of English rhyming compounds: 19 42 39 Disambiguation of 'criticism of an easy target': 4 96 Disambiguation of 'shot at an easy target or at random': 23 77
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: pot shot

Verb [English]

Forms: potshots [present, singular, third-person], potshotting [participle, present], potshotted [participle, past], potshotted [past]
Etymology: pot + shot Etymology templates: {{compound|en|pot|shot}} pot + shot Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} potshot (third-person singular simple present potshots, present participle potshotting, simple past and past participle potshotted)
  1. To fire potshots. Translations (to fire potshots): räiskiä (Finnish), drauflosballern (German)
    Sense id: en-potshot-en-verb-7v~FlurJ Categories (other): English rhyming compounds Disambiguation of English rhyming compounds: 19 42 39
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: pot shot

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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