Crossword clues for potshot
potshot
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A shot taken at an easy or random target. 2 Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot. n. 1 A shot taken at an easy or random target. 2 Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot. vb. To fire potshots.
WordNet
n. a shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter)
criticism aimed at an easy target and made without careful consideration; "reporters took potshots at the mayor"
Wikipedia
Potshot was a J-ska music group from Japan. They released their records on their own label, TV Freak, in Japan. Their first five albums were also re-released by Asian Man Records, an American label well known for signing Asian punk-pop bands. Their final album, Potshot Beat Goes On, released in May 2005. They disbanded in 2005, playing a final show in Tokyo.
Potshot is the 28th Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker. The story follows the fictional Boston-based PI Spenser as he tries to identify the killer of a widow's husband. As is often the case, Spenser's probing uncovers much more than just a simple—or single—murder.
Potshot may refer to:
- Pot-shots, a form of literary art attributed to epigrammist Ashleigh Brilliant
- Potshot (novel), a Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker
- Potshot (band), a former J-ska music group from Japan
- Potshot Lake, Minnesota, an unorganized territory
- Potshot, the codename for a WWII base that is now Exmouth, Western Australia
- Firing a weapon in the general direction of an intended target is referred to as a potshot. Often used metaphorically or rhetorically also, as in "The speaker took a potshot at the absent councilperson."
Usage examples of "potshot".
With nothing else to do, the guards spent their time gambling, drinking and taking potshots at the crows and ravens which occasionally floated past the unglazed slit windows of the guardhouse.
George, one of my oldest friends in Potshot, who had sat subserviently through the whole discussion without saying a word.
I was drinking coffee with the chief of the Potshot police in an unmarked airconditioned four-door black Ford Explorer, parked outside the bank on Main Street.
Tomorrow I was heading to Potshot and the farewell supper that Susan had made waited on the counter in her kitchen, blocked off by chairs.
I knew of two guys in Potshot that she might control-Mark Ratliff and Dean Walker.
He began to sit out there all day and part of the night, and finally he took a potshot at an innocent truck that was just passing by.
The horrified marines on the right flank, loath to fire across the path at their comrades, could only potshot ineffectively at the disappearing forms.
Joe was spit-polished and clean, wearing a chartreuse cowboy shut and new boots, and as they chugged along he took potshots at roadside prairie dogs with his .
Spent most of my time stopping them from taking potshots at old buildings that they violently disapproved of!
I supposed to do if somebody over there across the border starts taking potshots at me?
The gun had probably been left there by garrison soldiers and the Blackshirts had enjoyed themselves taking potshots at easy targets: a black sentry box near one of the cottages was a mess of bullet holes and splinters.
They spy on us a lot with those copters of theirs, and we take potshots at them whenever we get the chance.
Say if Joe took a potshot at one of his own trigger-happy compatriots and they blew him ass-backward down the canyon into eternity, scream as the liberals and the Charley Blooms might, they wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
But nobody in his right mind would climb to the top of a University bell tower to take potshots with a scopesighted rifle at passersby, either, her mind retorted, or murder perfectly innocent, semiretired rock'n'roll stars just to say they'd done it, or do any of the other gruesome things that had made the headlines within her memory.
More gunfire from beside him, the men who had been providing suppressive fire were potshotting the plastique balls Rourke and Daszrozinski had missed, chunks of flooring rising up, collapsing downward, screams, the gunfire from the KGB positions sporadic now.