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Definition of Shoot a line
1. Verb. Show off.
Specialized synonyms: Puff, Crow, Gloat, Triumph
Generic synonyms: Amplify, Exaggerate, Hyperbolise, Hyperbolize, Magnify, Overdraw, Overstate
Derivative terms: Bluster, Bluster, Blusterer, Boast, Boaster, Brag, Braggart, Bragger, Gasconade, Vaunt, Vaunter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoot A Line
Literary usage of Shoot a line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1905)
"... life- savers shoot a line out to a stranded ship; or it may be carried over
by a kite. In one case the ambitious engineer swam across the stream, ..."
2. Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916 by James Sprunt (1916)
"Efforts to shoot a line aboard by means of a line-firing gun proved abortive.
Oil was used freely through the closets forward. The oil formed a slick astern ..."
3. Chronicles of the Cape Fear River: Being Some Account of Historic Events on by James Sprunt (1914)
"Efforts to shoot a line aboard by means of a line-firing gun proved abortive.
Oil was used freely through the closets forward. The oil formed a slick astern ..."
4. A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and Its People: Its Mining by Alvah Littlefield Sawyer (1911)
"The patrolmen were on the ground and at daylight endeavored to shoot a line to
the Page. After several failures to reach the wreck by this means a life boat ..."
5. Elementary Geography by Harmon Bay Niver (1915)
"If the sea is too rough to go out in the life-boats, they sometimes shoot a line
from a cannon so that it falls over the wrecked vessel. ..."
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