Meaning of noseshot | Babel Free

Definitions

A range of smell, a distance in which something is detectable by smell.

idiomatic, uncountable

Examples

“As she approached closer, though, the load of rabbits came into vivid noseshot, and the saxophonist's nose wrinkled at the reek.”

“...Fartman's thunder has been stolen by a character in the 1999 film Mystery Man named Spleen (played by Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman) whose power was his ability to discharge farts so lethally putrid that they incapacitated anyone within noseshot.”

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