pot shot

noun

1. a chance shot taken casually, hastily, or without careful aim
2. a shot fired to kill game in disregard of the rules of sport
3. a shot fired at quarry within easy range, often from an ambush

Example Sentences

No; he had stalked his small bird till he got within thirty yards of the bough where it was perched, and taken a steady pot-shot.

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"They're droppin' back to pot-shot us," Blackburn said to Shorty.

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He's probably scared some German sympathizer may take a pot shot at him for filling these contracts.

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He's there in the back room, I reckon, but he's damn liable to take a pot shot at you when you go in.

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Some men in the mob had rifles and now and then a pot-shot would be taken at the fleeing figure.

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