Hyphenation of “shoot”
The standard US-English hyphenation shown for shoot is shoot, with 0 possible break points in this result.
What does “shoot” mean?
shoot: kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow.
(in soccer, hockey, basketball, etc.) kick, hit, or throw the ball or puck in an attempt to score a goal.
Example: “Williams twice shot wide”
film or photograph (a scene, film, etc.).
Example: “she has just been commissioned to shoot a video”
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(of a plant or seed) send out buds or shoots; germinate.
Example: “some years one or other plant fails to shoot”
inject oneself or another person with (a narcotic drug).
Example: “he shot dope into his arm”
plane (the edge of a board) accurately.
Example: “I shot the longer edge down on the planer”
an occasion when a group of people hunt and shoot game for sport.
Example: “a grouse shoot”
an occasion when a professional photographer takes photographs or when a film or video is being made.
Example: “a photo shoot”
variant spelling of chute1.
a rapid in a stream.
Example: “follow the portages that skirt all nine shoots of whitewater”
used as a euphemism for ‘shit’.
Example: “shoot, it was a great day to be alive”
a narrow metal enclosure for holding or restraining livestock, in which an animal may be vaccinated, branded, etc.
Example: “cattle tend to be calmer in a chute with solid sides”
Words connected with “shoot”
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How “shoot” is split
For US English, the hyphenation result is shoot. This gives 0 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns the same split.
Questions about “shoot”
How do you hyphenate “shoot”?
In the US-English result used here, shoot is hyphenated as shoot.
Where can “shoot” break at the end of a line?
The returned US pattern contains 0 possible break points.
What does “shoot” mean?
kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow.
Can you use “shoot” in a sentence?
“he was shot in the leg during an armed robbery”