Meaning of snap shot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A hard shot without much planning.
2. A quick shot executed by moving the stick parallel to the ground and ending with a snap of the wrist.
3. A shot taken quickly, without time for careful aiming.

Examples

“But the League One side's early endeavours brought only two well-struck but off-target free-kicks and a snap shot from Rickie Lambert.”

“The other maior shot is the snap shot. It is like a cousin of the wrist shot. It is a little faster than the wrist shot and requires less movement with the stick.”

“Oh, i thought, a mistake, a bad one, a dumb one. i shouldn't have made the snap shot. i took a few more steps, looking for possible new blood from my hasty shot—fearing the worst—and found some.”

“Tentatively, the market sentiment on May 5, 2004 could be described as favoring greater stability around the forward, however with a bias for a dollar depreciation. This is only a snap shot of expectations.”

“The people in the family are alive and dynamic and change whereas the snap shot is a fixed image of how they appeared in the past.”

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