Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rifle-shooting match in which a live turkey is the target and the prize: sometimes only the head of the fowl is exposed to the shooter.
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- noun Alternative form of
turkey shoot .
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Examples
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This is probing the enemy sort of stuff, and McCain has so many weaknesses and tells already exposed, that this is going to be a turkey-shoot.
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The Hayfield Inn, a little hostelrie on the Northern "pike," is the scene of many a turkey-shoot.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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The second turkey-shoot was held at the forty-yard range.
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Should they stay to a turkey-shoot, they would see in it the Occidental analogue of their own public matches -- more picturesque, if not quite so prim and scientific.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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In the next block a "turkey-shoot" is in progress.
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Halliday, I could see; two this time -- one charging Bud with all the crimes in the decalogue, and the other, under the lead of the prosecutor, launching forth into an account of a turkey-shoot in which
The Under Dog Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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You must not have taken the time to view "Collateral Murder," the Army gun-barrel video showing American troops killing Iraqi civilians in a turkey-shoot on July 12, 2007 during the "surge" in Baghdad.
WarIsACrime.org 2010
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I guess they have yet to do so for any of "best arguments", however defined, over at CA, thereby giving McIntyre the turkey-shoot slapping around he clearly deserves, in your eyes, because I haven't seen them and surely you would have just pointed to them.
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Sembie-Ferris and Sturgess both went on to complete hat-tricks in what was fast becoming a bit of a turkey-shoot before Ryan Swain grabbed his first of the season and Matthew Steele scored against his old club.
unknown title 2009
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It's so powerful that driving the Mako means that you are essentially in store for a turkey-shoot until the game forces you to get out and walk.
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