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To launch {{gloss|forcefully project}} (a projectile or similar object).

To fire (a weapon that releases a bullet or other projectile).

To fire or launch (a projectile).

To fire a projectile at (a person or target).

To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile; to use a gun or similar weapon.

To hunt game with a gun; to go hunting for recreation.

To hunt on (a piece of land) with a gun; to kill game in or on.

To function as a weapon that launches a projectile.

(gambling) To throw dice; to roll.

(slang) To ejaculate.

(imperative) To begin to speak.

(figurative) To dismiss, reject, or do away with.

To photograph or film:

# (analogous) To photograph.

# (TV) To film.

To push or thrust (a bolt) quickly; hence, to open (a lock); to unlock.

To move or act quickly or suddenly.

To move past very quickly and suddenly.

To go over or pass quickly through.

(surfing) To ride a wave.

To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.

To penetrate with pain as if with a bullet; to stab; to cause a piercing sensation.

To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.

(obsolete) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.

To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.

(ditransitive) To send (to someone).

To leave; to depart.

(sport) To act or achieve.

(wrestling) To lunge.

(professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).

To make (the stated score).

(colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously. +

To develop, move forward.

To germinate; to bud; to sprout.

To grow; to advance.

(nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.

To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.

To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with ''out''.

To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.

(carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.

To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. {{n-g|(See (shot silk) on Wikipedia)}}

(card games) To shoot the moon.

(aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).

(surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).

To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.

To drink (a shot of an alcoholic beverage).

The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

A photography session.

A hunt or shooting competition.

(slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.

The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.

A rush of water; a rapid.

(weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.

A shoat; a young pig.

(mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.

(card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.

A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.

{{non-gloss|A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or dismay}}