buckshot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of buckshot
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at buck 1, shot 1
Example Sentences
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Arthur’s attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender Ed Gray, urged the jury to consider the context under which Arthur was giving this information to Buckshot.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2023
Buckshot initially contacted Arthur in May 2021 for help, claiming that agents from the U.S.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2023
Max Wastler, 31, lives in Chicago where he writes a blog, All Plaidout, and runs Buckshot Sonny’s, an online sporting goods store, with his business partner, Joe Gannon.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2012
After solo sets, Masta Ace and Buckshot collaborated for an impromptu reunion of two-thirds of the Crooklyn Dodgers, the one-off group assembled for the soundtrack of the 1994 Spike Lee film, “Crooklyn.”
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2011
They are on the Buckshot Road, out beyond where Carrie Poole lives.
From The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended by Hill, Grace Brooks
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