crosshair
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.93 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternate form of crosshairs; a reticle in the shape of a pair of crossed hairs (thin perpendicular lines) in the sight of a firearm.
verb
To target.
Example Sentences
- "I'm just a crosshair / I'm just a shot away from you"
- "Watching hopefully for a buck to come along behind the does, I eyed them through the scope of the borrowed .243. From time to time, I crosshaired the vital areas ."
- "The next moment it was crosshaired by the electronic sights ."
- "That's when Dad noticed one of P. V.'s deputies standing behind a truck about a hundred feet away, crosshairing a rifle straight at him."
- "A red glowing reticle crosshaired whatever the laser's muzzle was pointed at, together with flickering numbers giving range, bearing, and probable targetID."
- "She fired a smile at him, the likes of which he hadn't seen in years—since Meg, in fact, had crosshaired him at the junior prom with one of those flirtations that he never would've believed the president of the Methodist Girls' Youth Group was capable of."