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  • noun soccer A shot from one side of the field towards the opposite corner of the goal.

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Examples

  • With various options, he slips the ball to the onrushing Alvaro Pereira, but his cross-shot is desperately blocked by Acasiete.30 min: Gradually this is becoming a very entertaining end-to-end tussle.

    Copa América 2011: Peru v Uruguay – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2011

  • ET 18 min: Kalaba brings a high ball down beautifully and drives into the area, but Bamba blocks his cross-shot behind.

    Ivory Coast v Zambia - as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2012

  • Rafaelle De Vita, born in Rome but signed from Livingston, put them ahead early on with a skimming header to a left-sided free-kick from Mehdi Kerrouche, who added the second before half-time, receiving from Matt Ritchie and converting with a turn and cross-shot.

    Paolo Di Canio goes through the motions to unlock Swindon's dark side | Jeremy Alexander 2011

  • A soft goal in the 80th minute from Hugo Rodallega, whose cross-shot Carlo Cudicini should have saved, and Wigan departed to celebratory squeals from their handful of travelling supporters while Spurs left the scene to derisory boos from the nation's most fickle fans.

    Harry Redknapp refuses to blame Champions League hangover for defeat David Lacey at White Hart Lane 2010

  • Varney's deflected cross-shot was inexplicably bundled into his own net by John Pantsil and then his classy finish turned the game on its head in five heady second-half minutes.

    Blackpool bag a deserved point from Fulham and David Stockdale Richard Gibson at Bloomfield Road 2010

  • While Lee Cattermole and Jordan Henderson had begun closing Touré down with real zeal, Ahmed Elmohamady, dubbed Egypt's David Beckham, was living up to that vaunted reputation and duly forced Joe Hart into his first save of the game with a curling 66th-minute cross-shot.

    Sunderland joy after Darren Bent penalty sinks Manchester City 2010

  • After Moussa Dembélé had set up Bobby Zamora, also injured and later withdrawn from Capello's squad, Varney's cross-shot was bundled into his own net by John Pantsil.

    Blackpool bag a deserved point from Fulham and David Stockdale Richard Gibson at Bloomfield Road 2010

  • A soft goal in the 80th minute from Hugo Rodallega, whose cross-shot Carlo Cudicini should have saved, and Wigan departed to celebratory squeals from their handful of travelling supporters while Spurs left the scene to derisory boos from the nation's most fickle fans.

    Harry Redknapp has no sympathy for Tottenham hangover 2010

  • You can see when his bullets are coming nearer you, and you turn to give what we call a "cross-shot" - a most difficult shot-and edge in a little nearer all the time, working from side to side to get underneath him.

    Experiences of a Canadian Aviator in France 1918

  • The poignant sadness cross-shot with humor of another of Schubert's songs, _The Hurdy Gurdy_, vanishes in the concert room, melts hopelessly into the dulcet tones of the young lady soprano, whose friends titter when she is done, "What a pretty song."

    Penguin Persons & Peppermints Walter Prichard Eaton 1917

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