"walk one's shots" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: walks one's shots [present, singular, third-person], walking one's shots [participle, present], walked one's shots [participle, past], walked one's shots [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} walk one's shots (third-person singular simple present walks one's shots, present participle walking one's shots, simple past and past participle walked one's shots)
  1. (military) To repeatedly observe the fall of shot of one's weapon and use this data to adjust one's aim until one hits one's target. Categories (topical): Military
    Sense id: en-walk_one's_shots-en-verb-ejLFeLb4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: government, military, politics, war

Inflected forms

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