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shooting

NOUN
firing a weapon
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Yet the atmospheric authenticity that sustained Troell's movies is apparently impossible to duplicate on a television snooting schedule.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said they: U.S. newspaper editors are opposed, two-to-one, to U.S. entry into a snooting war.

From Time Magazine Archive

For their part, they did little more than promise to stop snooting.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, Sunday came, and while the other wretches went out snooting on Sunday, our friend hied himself to the Sabbath school.

From Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)

"Treachery," roared Bill, and with one blow on the snout knocked the Fireman endways on into the burning cinders, where his helmet fell off, and exposed the countenance of that snooting, snouting scoundrel, the Possum.

From The Magic Pudding Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff by Lindsay, Norman




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