Lexic.us

Definition of Cheap shot

1. Noun. An unnecessarily aggressive and unfair remark directed at a defenseless person.

2. Noun. An illegal and unsportsmanlike act of unnecessary violence. "He called a penalty on them when the lineman took a cheap shot at the quarterback"

Definition of Cheap shot

1. Noun. A deliberate, unsportsmanlike, and potentially illegal act of aggression against an opponent. ¹

2. Noun. (context: by analogy) A remark that unfairly disparages an obvious vulnerability of the target. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheap Shot

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Literary usage of Cheap shot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mentally Incontinent by Joe Peacock (2005)
"cheap shot. Total cheap shot. With a quick press of the pause button, I leapt off the floor and snatched the receiver from the wall-mounted cradle just ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1891)
"... small-boy with the cheap shot-gun, who have been so destructive to singing-birds, as well as to furred and feathered game, in some other countries. ..."

3. Arrows of the Chace: Being a Collection of Scattered Letters Published by John Ruskin (1880)
"Our experimental embankments against (perhaps too economically cheap) shot at Shoeburyness, are property which we can only safely " realize" under similarly ..."

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