angle-shoot
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.22 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To use a trick that is not explicitly prohibited by the rules, but which is used to gain unfair advantage.
Slang
Example Sentences
- "After the bowler has acquired a smooth delivery he is shown how to angle-shoot for spares, the essentials of spot and line bowling, and such new techniques as finger-tip control."
- "He recalls, and then surpasses, his visual diversions for 'Can't Buy Me Love' in A Hard Day's Night when he chop-cuts and angle-shoots his four principal comics during their rendiction of 'Everybody Ought to Have a Maid'"
- "The floor will rule one way or another; the point isn't so much to win the ruling as to put the spotlight on the offending player so he's less likely to angle-shoot on future hands."
- "I like to think that I used my superior skill to come out on top; I don't like the idea that I had to angle-shoot to take home more money than I came with."
- "Or perhaps, unlike many firms looking for fast dividends from the disaster, Krispy Kreme didn't try to angle-shoot the tragedy. It hasn't changed its approach to business— which may well have something to do with its success."
- "The fact that for the greater part of its length the angle-shoot has the same structure as a normal stem is what would be expected; it does not, in my opinion, prove that the former is not a transformed rhizophore."