| ammunition |
Ammunition is what people put into a gun and shoot out of it. Bullets are a kind of ammunition. |
| battlement |
(often plural) a wall along the top of a castle, fort, or tower that has openings for people to shoot through. |
| crossbow |
a bow on a wooden stock. Crossbows shoot arrows when someone pulls a trigger. |
| dart |
to shoot out or send out suddenly. [1/4 definitions] |
| discharge |
to shoot or fire off. [1/6 definitions] |
| fire |
to shoot. [2/9 definitions] |
| foul line |
a line on a basketball court drawn fifteen feet from the backboard. A player may shoot freely from this line when the other team commits a foul. [1/2 definitions] |
| gun |
to shoot using a rifle or gun (often followed by "down"). [1/3 definitions] |
| hoop |
If someone says they are going to shoot hoops, it means that they are going to practice the skill of throwing a basketball through a basketball hoop. [1/3 definitions] |
| Jacuzzi |
trademark for a type of bath that has underwater jets. The jets shoot air into the water, making it whirl around. |
| jet1 |
to shoot forth; spurt in a stream. [1/3 definitions] |
| offshoot |
a branch or shoot from the main stem of a plant. [1/2 definitions] |
| rocket1 |
A rocket is something shaped like a tube that has the power to shoot high into the air very fast. Rockets are used to send other things into the air such as fireworks or even spaceships. [1/3 definitions] |
| shoot |
When you shoot something, you hit it by sending something through the air very, very fast. People usually shoot things using bullets or arrows. If someone shoots an animal, the animal will be hurt or killed. [7/10 definitions] |
| shot2 |
past tense and past participle of "shoot." [1/2 definitions] |
| slingshot |
a small weapon shaped like a Y with a piece of elastic attached to the branches of the Y. Slingshots are held in the hand and are used to shoot stones or other small objects. |
| spear2 |
a pointed sprout or shoot of a plant. |
| sprout |
a shoot or bud of a plant. [1/4 definitions] |
| spurt |
to rush or shoot out in a forced or sudden way; spout. [2/5 definitions] |
| squirt |
to shoot out in a thin jet; spurt. [1/5 definitions] |
| trigger |
A trigger is the part of a gun that you pull to make it shoot. [1/3 definitions] |