shotgun blast
Close-range spray fire
A shotgun blast is the discharge of a shotgun, or the spray of pellets it produces.
Shotguns fire multiple projectiles that spread outward, so a blast at close range causes devastating damage.
The term appears in crime reports, hunting contexts, and figuratively for anything sudden and forceful: The announcement hit the department like a shotgun blast.
- buckshotCoarse shotgun pellets
- pump-actionManual cycling mechanism
- sawed offCut through with blade
- recoilBackward force from discharge
- scatterDistribute in random directions
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- gunfiregunshot, artillery fire, fire, gunfire, cannon fire
- woundswound, wounded, bullet wound, wounds, ulcer
shotgun blastsniper shot
Precision long-distance firing
precision strike · surgical strike · guided missile · pinpoint accuracy · arrow
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