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clay pigeon

n. A flying target, usually a disc, made of a mixture of pitch and pulverized limestone rock, used as moving target in sport shooting.

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clay pigeon

n. target used in skeet or trapshooting

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Clay pigeon

Clay pigeon may refer to

  • the target of the sport of clay pigeon shooting
  • Clay pigeon floor procedure, a strategy used in the U.S. Senate
  • The Clay Pigeon, a 1949 film noir
  • Clay Pigeons, a 1998 film
Clay Pigeon (film)
''This article is about the 1971 film Clay Pigeon. For the 1998 film, see Clay Pigeons. For the sport involving clay pigeons, see skeet shooting.

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Clay Pigeon is a 1971 American action film directed by Lane Slate and Tom Stern and written by Ronald Buck, Jack Gross Jr. and Buddy Ruskin. The film stars Tom Stern, Telly Savalas, Robert Vaughn, John Marley, Burgess Meredith and Ivan Dixon. The film was released on August 1971, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Usage examples of "clay pigeon".

Ort, however, continued to blast every clay pigeon thrown, with monotonous accuracy.

In the other, he's got a dirty canister about the size of a clay pigeon.

I don't like being a clay pigeon for this crazy shooting gallery out here!

Possibly we could shatter the world like a clay pigeon if we wished, but we would not be lords of it if we had to shatter it.