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Trapshooting

Definition: Trapshooting

Trapshooting

Noun

1. The sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Trapshooting

Synonyms: skeet (n), skeet shooting (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Trapshooting

English words defined with "trapshooting": clay pigeon. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Trapshooting

DomainTitle

Books

  • An Insight to Sports: Featuring Trapshooting and Golf (reference)

  • Shotgun sports presents trapshooting is a game of opposites (T.I.A.G.O.O.) (reference)

  • Trapshooting Secrets (reference)

  • Trapshooting With D. Lee Braun and the Remington Pros: A Remington Sportsmen's Library Book (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Pachmayr's Trapshooting With Ken Robertson (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Trapshooting

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

trapshooting

80

amateur assoc trapshooting

56

amateur association trapshooting

30

amateur trapshooting

6

ata trapshooting

6

american association trapshooting

4

missouri trapshooting

3

pita trapshooting

2

nebraska trapshooting

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Trapshooting

Language Translations for "trapshooting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

стендовая стрельба. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Trapshooting

Derivations

Words beginning with "trapshooting": trapshootings. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Trapshooting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crapshooting, sharpshooting. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Trapshooting

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-n-o-o-p-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: protagonist.

-3 letters: nightspot, pastoring, poortiths, potations, protistan, rogations, rotations, throating.

-4 letters: aphorist, arnottos, atropins, harpings, harpoons, hornitos, isograph, orangish, orations, organist, ostinato, partings, patriots, patroons, photoing, phrasing, pogonias, poortith, portions, positron, postriot, potation, rattoons, roasting, rogation, roosting, rotating, rotation, sharping, shooting, shorting, shotting, soothing, sorption, spatting, spittoon, spooring, sporting, spotting, starting, stooping, straight.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-n-o-o-p-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: trapshootings.

 

+2 letters: anthropologist.

 

+3 letters: anthropologists.

 

+4 letters: neuropathologist.

 

+5 letters: neuropathologists, nonanthropologist, photodisintegrate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Trapshooting


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 61 70 73 68 6F 6F 74 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-.    .-    .--.    ...    ....    ---    ---    -    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01110000 01110011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#112 &#115 &#104 &#111 &#111 &#116 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 0070 0073 0068 006F 006F 0074 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

548467828574818186758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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