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snap shot en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A hard shot without much planning.
    • But the League One side's early endeavours brought only two well-struck but off-target free-kicks and a snap shot from Rickie Lambert. 2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, in BBC:
  2. (qualifier:field hockey or ice hockey) A quick shot executed by moving the stick parallel to the ground and ending with a snap of the wrist.
    • The other maior shot is the snap shot. It is like a cousin of the wrist shot. It is a little faster than the wrist shot and requires less movement with the stick. 2014, Chris Peters, Girls' Hockey, →ISBN, page 15:
  3. A shot taken quickly, without time for careful aiming.
    • Oh, i thought, a mistake, a bad one, a dumb one. i shouldn't have made the snap shot. i took a few more steps, looking for possible new blood from my hasty shot—fearing the worst—and found some. 2010, Jay Cassell, Thomas McIntyre, The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told, →ISBN, page 474:
  4. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of snapshot.
    alt of snapshot
    • Tentatively, the market sentiment on May 5, 2004 could be described as favoring greater stability around the forward, however with a bias for a dollar depreciation. This is only a snap shot of expectations. 2004, Noureddine Krichene, Deriving Market Expectations for the Euro-Dollar Exchange, →ISBN:
    • The people in the family are alive and dynamic and change whereas the snap shot is a fixed image of how they appeared in the past. 2009, Byron R. Harrell, Supercharged Giving, →ISBN, page 102:

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snap shot en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of snap shoot
    form of snap shoot