turkey shoot
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hunt or hunting competition, using rifles or shotguns, in which wild turkeys are the prey; a marksmanship contest in which a turkey is the prize.
American usage
Example Sentences
- "Behind his barricade of barrels, Sam heard and shivered like a gun-shy collie at a turkey shoot."
- "[H]e had seen a thirteen-year-old boy named Jim Clanton win a turkey shoot against the best marksmen of the hill country."
- "Debbie Houk said Jordan, a hunter, knew a lot about guns and was a good shot. On Valentine's Day, he beat out many older and more experienced hunters at a turkey shoot. "I'll never cook that turkey. It's the same gun that killed my daughter," she said."
- "In the Battle of the Marianas, which pilots called "the turkey shoot," they downed 360 Japanese planes in a single day, the record bag of the war."
- "Almost everyone argued that it would be inhumane for Americans to engage in a turkey shoot against fleeing Iraqi soldiers."
- "The U-boats, for instance, had a stranglehold on the merchant shipping supplying Britain, and it was thought that a convoy system would turn into a turkey shoot."
Usage
- American usage