The meaning of POTSHOT is a shot taken from ambush or at a random or easy target. How to use potshot in a sentence.

In contemporary usage, a 'potshot' is a critical remark made sporadically or randomly. Its origins are in actual cheap or easy shots taken by hunters for the purpose of getting food to fill a cooking pot.

POTSHOT definition: 1. a shot that is fired carelessly or with little preparation: 2. a criticism: 3. a shot that is…. Learn more.

A potshot (or pot-shot) was a shot at an animal meant to "get it in the pot," or kill it strictly for food, rather than for the sport of hunting — the implication being that sport shooting required more skill.

To take a potshot at someone or something means to shoot at them without taking the time to aim carefully.

1. a shot fired at game merely for food, with little regard to skill or the rules of sport. 2. a shot at an animal or person within easy range, as from ambush. 3. a casual or aimless shot. 4. a random or incidental criticism.

POTSHOT meaning: a gunshot that is fired in a careless way or at an easy target often used figuratively to describe a careless or unfair criticism

To take a potshot at someone or something means to shoot at them without taking the time to aim carefully.

2024年8月25日 · potshot (plural potshots) A shot taken at an easy or random target. Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.

Definition of potshot noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. a shot that somebody fires without aiming carefully. Somebody took a potshot at him as he drove past. (figurative) The newspapers took constant potshots at (= criticized) the president. Definition of potshot noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.