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cheap shot

noun

1
: an act of deliberate roughness against a defenseless opponent especially in a contact sport
taking cheap shots at the quarterback
2
: a critical statement that takes unfair advantage of a known weakness of the target
cheap-shot transitive verb

Example Sentences

He took a cheap shot at the quarterback. a cheap shot to the back of the head The remark about his weight was a cheap shot.
Recent Examples on the Web And that’s just a cheap shot and a low blow all wrapped up in one. Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022 Whatever the number of hits or KO’s, Bright got up each time, even unwilling to surrender when the final cheap shot by Smith broke his jaw. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022 Some other Republicans criticized the use of the video as a cheap shot. Josh Dawsey, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022 Some other conservatives criticized the use of the video as a cheap shot. Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 10 June 2022 Three hundred and one days after Claude Lemieux’s cheap shot on Kris Draper, the Wings punched back. Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2022 Mac, of course, was Darren McCarty, who on March 26 at The Joe pummeled Claude Lemieux for his cheap shot on Draper in the 1996 conference finals. Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2022 Even people who adored Manolete always managed to tack on some gratuitous cheap shot about the unpleasantness of his face. New York Times, 3 May 2022 Which brings me to McCaskey’s cheap shot at Olin Kreutz. Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of cheap shot was in 1971

See also: cheap shot


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