shoot

For the verb: "to shoot"

Simple Past:	shot
Past Participle:	shot

Multiple Entries:
  shoot    chute  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shoot/ʃuːt/

▶verb (past and past part. shot)

• 1 kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow.

  ■ cause (a gun) to fire.

  ■ hunt game with a gun.

  ■ (shoot someone/thing down) bring down an aircraft or person by shooting.

• 2 move suddenly and rapidly.

  ■ (as adj. shooting) (of a pain) sudden and piercing.

  ■ direct (a glance, question, or remark) at someone.

  ■ (shoot through) Austral./NZ informal depart, especially hurriedly.

• 3 (in football, basketball, etc.) kick, hit, or throw the ball or puck in an attempt to score a goal.

  ■ informal make (a specified score) for a round of golf.

  ■ N. Amer. informal play a game of (pool, dice, or golf).

• 4 film or photograph (a scene, film, etc.).

• 5 send out buds or shoots; germinate.

• 6 (shoot up) informal inject oneself with a narcotic drug.

• 7 plane (the edge of a board) accurately.

• 8 (of a boat) sweep swiftly down or under (rapids, a waterfall, or a bridge).

  ■ informal drive past (a traffic light at red).

• 9 move (a door bolt) to fasten or unfasten a door.

▶noun

• 1 a young branch or sucker springing from the main stock of a tree or other plant.

• 2 an occasion when a group of people hunt and shoot game for sport.

  ■ Brit. land used for shooting game.

• 3 an occasion of taking photographs professionally or making a film or video: a fashion shoot.

• 4 variant spelling of chute1.

• 5 a rapid in a stream.

▶exclamation N. Amer. informal used as a euphemism for ‘shit’.

– phrases
shoot the breeze (or the bull) N. Amer. informal have a casual conversation.
shoot one's cuffs pull one's shirt cuffs out to project beyond the cuffs of one's jacket or coat.
shoot oneself in the foot informal inadvertently make a situation worse for oneself.
shoot a line Brit. informal describe something in an exaggerated, untruthful, or boastful way.
shoot one's mouth off informal talk boastfully or indiscreetly.
the whole shooting match informal everything.

– derivatives
shootable adjective.

– origin OE scēotan, of Gmc origin; rel. to sheet1, shot1, and shut.

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chute1 (also shoot)

▶noun a sloping channel or slide for conveying things to a lower level.

■ a water slide into a swimming pool.

– origin C19: from Fr., ‘fall’ (of water or rocks); influenced by shoot.

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chute2

▶noun informal

• 1 a parachute.

• 2 Sailing a spinnaker.

– derivatives
chutist noun.