shoot
noun/ʃuːt/
Frequency rank: #1,406 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
To fire a weapon, or to send something quickly through the air.
Example sentence
They organized a weekend shoot to hunt pheasants in the countryside.
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