Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In trap-shooting, a subsequent competition between contestants who have made tied scores.
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Examples
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Winning team is safe, losing team has to pick two members for a shoot-off, and loser of that goes home.
Top Shot Steve Perry 2010
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Selection of the two for the shoot-off was hokie but fun -- there were targets with each contestant's name on one and the way they chose the two was to fire one round each into the name of the guy they wanted.
Top Shot Steve Perry 2010
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Selection of the two for the shoot-off was hokie but fun -- there were targets with each contestant's name on one and the way they chose the two was to fire one round each into the name of the guy they wanted.
Archive 2010-06-01 Steve Perry 2010
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Winning team is safe, losing team has to pick two members for a shoot-off, and loser of that goes home.
Archive 2010-06-01 Steve Perry 2010
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The shoot-off was with a modern scoped rifle, three targets, two hundred, four hundred, six hundred yards.
Top Shot Steve Perry 2010
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The shoot-off was with a modern scoped rifle, three targets, two hundred, four hundred, six hundred yards.
Archive 2010-06-01 Steve Perry 2010
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Serious shooters gladly spend the extra money anyway, hoping it may buy them one or two targets on the margins: the difference between making the shoot-off and going home.
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It amazes me how there doesn't seem to be many surrogates lining up to help Obama fight the GOP, yet we get no shortage of lose cannons (Chuck Schumer, Bob Kerrey, now even Feingold?) looking to independently shoot-off their mouths.
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And the shoot-off should not be done by a testing facility for the military.
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The shoot-off should be done by combat troops just like we used to do in the Rangers when we selected the best machine gun they have.
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