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moonshot
or moon shot
[ moon-shot ]
noun
- the act or procedure of launching a rocket or spacecraft to the moon.
- a very challenging and innovative project or undertaking:
Technology companies are investing in moonshots that address the world’s greatest problems.
- Baseball. a high-velocity home run in which the ball reaches an extraordinary height:
What could be more exciting than a bases-clearing moonshot over the right field wall in the bottom of the eleventh inning?
adjective
- relating to or noting a very challenging and innovative project or undertaking:
His department takes moonshot ideas and brings them to reality.
moonshot
/ ˈmuːnˌʃɒt /
noun
- the launching of a spacecraft, rocket, etc, to the moon
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Word History and Origins
Origin of moonshot1
An Americanism dating back to 1945–50 moonshot fordef 1; moon + shot 1; the baseball sense, also capitalized as Moon shot, was named after Wallace Wade “Wally” Moon (1930–2018), U.S. baseball player, whose home run helped the Dodgers win the 1959 pennant
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Example Sentences
Her moonshot, she said, is “being on every smartphone, every tablet, and every PC for every Internet user.”
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