NOUN
- an unnecessarily aggressive and unfair remark directed at a defenseless person
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an illegal and unsportsmanlike act of unnecessary violence
he called a penalty on them when the lineman took a cheap shot at the quarterback
How To Use cheap shot In A Sentence
- His remark was a cheap shot at short people.
- synners tag takin' cheap shots at p. diddy talk like a pirate tea from an empty cup technological torture technology technology apocalypse--long time coming teh cheezburgr strikes again! And Then THREE Got By Me--
- He thought this was a cheap shot by the chemical industry to divert attention away from pesticides. Times, Sunday Times
- Of course it doesn't alter a goldarn thing, but I guess I'd be better be prepared to discuss a million years of human and pre-human fossil remains throughout the eastern hemisphere, rather than taking cheap shots at the internal consistency of the Bible. Where did Cain's wife come from blah blah blah
- He deserves better than to be criticised by gay activists with such a cheap shot.
- Okay, cheap shot, but Dickson carries such an air of efficiency that you can't believe she would let these details elude her.
- It's a cheap shot: Send your difficult client off to the shrinks and never see him again.
- With the instigator rule, it restricts self-policing, so guys get away with these kinds of cheap shots.
- Club rugby in New Zealand is played at breathtaking pace, and there is an unwritten code that anyone taking cheap shots will be dealt with by the opposition, and not by the referee.
- Political parties in Canada are truly democratic organizations and don't deserve the cheap shots they constantly take from the media and from politically cynical sourpusses.
