clay-pigeon
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clay pigeon
noun
1.
Trapshooting, Skeet. a disk of baked clay or other material hurled into the air from a trap as a target.
2.
Slang. a person in a situation likely to be taken advantage of by others.
Origin:
1885–90, Americanism
1885–90, Americanism
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| clay pigeon | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a disc of baked clay hurled into the air from a machine as a target to be shot at |
| 2. | slang (US) a person in a defenceless position; sitting duck |
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Clay-pigeon
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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clay pigeon definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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