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Definition of Potshot
1. Noun. A shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter).
2. Noun. Criticism aimed at an easy target and made without careful consideration. "Reporters took potshots at the mayor"
Definition of Potshot
1. Noun. A shot taken at an easy or random target ¹
2. Noun. Unwarranted, invalid, or inaccurate criticism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Potshot
1. to shoot randomly at [v -SHOT, -SHOTTING, -SHOTS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potshot
Literary usage of Potshot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"I. To kill: specifically (modern) to shoot from cover : also TO potshot. ...
There is none of the credit due to the quiet potshot which a quick snap-shot at ..."
2. American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II by Henry Harley Arnold, John W. Huston (2001)
"The submarines being faster can take a potshot at the convoy, then move forward
and wait for it and then take another potshot. Those ships moving in the ..."
3. Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures by Albert Bigelow Paine (1904)
"... and of his cheery Christmas pictures—his Santa Claus—his Dickens characters,
and the annual " potshot " of fun to be found in his Comic Almanac. ..."
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