shooting match
Americannoun
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a contest in marksmanship.
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Informal.
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a number of persons or things collectively.
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everything involved with a particular matter.
He decided to sell the whole shooting match—his house, furniture, and car.
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Etymology
Origin of shooting match
First recorded in 1740–50
Example Sentences
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It's a slippery slope from a shooting match along the lines of the film "The Favourite," to angrily then grudgingly working together, then to making out in the wreckage of a plane.
From Salon • Jan. 11, 2022
Boeheim and Co. run the whole shooting match, and no matter what they do, you can’t run ’em out of town unless they miss March Madness three straight times.
From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2016
Gideon needs his version of “What Say You Meg,” the song that currently gives the whole shooting match to the other guy.
From Chicago Tribune • Jun. 26, 2014
The modern world has gone barmy about computers, and it owes the whole shooting match to Turing.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2012
One year his father had won a pig in a shooting match and raised it to a hog.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
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