misshoot

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ shoot

Verb

misshoot (third-person singular simple present misshoots, present participle misshooting, simple past and past participle misshot)

1. To shoot incorrectly (any sense).
   • 1950, Television: The Business Magazine of the Industry, page 36:

     The camera man progresses set-up by set-up and frame by frame at the same time making all the calibrated camera moves that are indicated on the exposure sheets. Any misshooting would cause a jump on the screen.

   • 1981, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security, Social Security Financing Issues, page 237:

     I am the Secretary who will be on the watch when we move all the computers, and if some computer gets snarled up or messed up or snafued and we misshoot 100,000 checks across the country, I am the guy at the computer door.

   • 1985, Michael Lynch, Art and Artifact in Laboratory Science, page 218:

     A lab director accuses an electron microscopist of misshooting a row of micrographs.

   • 2005, P.P Giridhar, Translatology: Interrogative Translatology: Interrogative Musings on the Grid:

     The ‘cultural turn’ which is even otherwise unjustifiable because it both misshoots and overshoots the target, as I will try to argue, makes matters worse for TS.

   • 2008, Wm L. Cox, A Book: A Journey Into Love, page 104:

     This is a term of the archer, meaning: misshot, missing the mark, or not on the bull's-eye) will go on unto the second and third generation's of a family (unless steps are taken to release the faulty belief system).

   • 2011, Allan Frewin Jones, Destiny's Path:

     Not quite round – but good enough to be launched from a slingshot and to cause an arrogant lad to misshoot with his bow.

   • 2017, Rebecca Crowley, Crossing Hearts:

     Rio wheeled into position to receive it, but the Frenchman misshot, sending the ball into open territory.

Noun

misshoot (plural misshoots)

1. An instance of misshooting.
   • 1995, United States. Embassy (Japan), United States. Embassy (Japan). Translation Services Branch. Political Division, Daily Summary of Japanese Press, page 7:

     Even in such a considerably convenient hypothesis, there would be a large number of "misshoots."

   • 2020 April 16, Litalu2, “Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes”, in Drawabox‎^[1]:

     rough perspective: there are a lot of misshoots (like we all do), but as long as you understand where they should converge and these lines are ghosted, that's not a problem.

   • 2021 January 5, “Hamasaki, who was mocked as a ball, really gained 200 pounds? It's so spicy”, in lujuba‎^[2], archived from the original on 21 July 2023:

     In fact, the two that were circulated were just a matter of perspective, which may be caused by the bad faith of the crowd caused by the photographer's misshoot.