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shooting match

[ shoo-ting shoot-n, shoo-ting ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a contest in marksmanship.
Informal.
1. a number of persons or things collectively.
2. everything involved with a particular matter:
  He decided to sell the whole shooting match—his house, furniture, and car.

First recorded in 1740–50

There is my old home, where I lived when little with my grandfather; and the shooting-match is at Interlaken!

I looked every day to see Mr. Norcross pitch the whole shooting-match into the fire and quit, cold.

In the daytime the young men ran races, played games, and had a shooting match.

A few hours after the fatal shooting-match, Bartja had followed Croesus' advice and had gone off to Sais with his young wife.

Whole shooting-match keen for service—no slackers and no greenhorns in that crowd.

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