"Parthian shot" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "The military tactic was made famous in Rome by the Parthians, an empire on their eastern border.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Parthian shots",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Parthian shot (plural Parthian shots)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A military maneuver where archers on horseback turned their bodies back in full gallop to shoot at the pursuing enemy."
      ],
      "id": "en-Parthian_shot-en-noun-dbNpk2TM",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "maneuver",
          "maneuver"
        ],
        [
          "archer",
          "archer"
        ],
        [
          "horseback",
          "horseback"
        ],
        [
          "gallop",
          "gallop"
        ],
        [
          "shoot",
          "shoot"
        ],
        [
          "pursuing",
          "pursue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, military) A military maneuver where archers on horseback turned their bodies back in full gallop to shoot at the pursuing enemy."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "parting shot"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Parthian shot"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "The military tactic was made famous in Rome by the Parthians, an empire on their eastern border.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Parthian shots",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Parthian shot (plural Parthian shots)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "parting shot"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A military maneuver where archers on horseback turned their bodies back in full gallop to shoot at the pursuing enemy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "maneuver",
          "maneuver"
        ],
        [
          "archer",
          "archer"
        ],
        [
          "horseback",
          "horseback"
        ],
        [
          "gallop",
          "gallop"
        ],
        [
          "shoot",
          "shoot"
        ],
        [
          "pursuing",
          "pursue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, military) A military maneuver where archers on horseback turned their bodies back in full gallop to shoot at the pursuing enemy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Parthian shot"
}