sharpshooting
English
Etymology
sharp + shooting; see sharpshooter.
Noun
sharpshooting (countable and uncountable, plural sharpshootings)
- Highly accurate marksmanship.
- Daniel Boone's sharpshooting earned him a place in the annals of the American west.
- Bret Harte
- Owing to a want of proper concert among ourselves, I think, the battle became a series of detached skirmishes and sharpshootings, continuing all day […]
Verb
sharpshooting
- present participle of sharpshoot