angle-shoot

Definitions

1. 1

   To fire or shoot from an angle.

   • After the bowler has acquired a smooth delivery he is shown how to angle-shoot for spares, the essentials of spot and line bowling, and such new techniques as finger-tip control.
   • He recalls, and then surpasses, his visual diversions for 'Can't Buy Me Love' in A Hard Day's Night when he chop-cuts and angle-shoots his four principal comics during their rendiction of 'Everybody Ought to Have a Maid'
2. 2

   To use a trick that is not explicitly prohibited by the rules, but which is used to gain…

   To use a trick that is not explicitly prohibited by the rules, but which is used to gain unfair advantage.

   • The floor will rule one way or another; the point isn't so much to win the ruling as to put the spotlight on the offending player so he's less likely to angle-shoot on future hands.
3. 3

   To bend the rules

   To bend the rules; to behave in a way that is unethical but not illegal.

   • I like to think that I used my superior skill to come out on top; I don't like the idea that I had to angle-shoot to take home more money than I came with.
   • Or perhaps, unlike many firms looking for fast dividends from the disaster, Krispy Kreme didn't try to angle-shoot the tragedy. It hasn't changed its approach to business— which may well have something to do with its success.
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   1. 4

      A side shoot that grows from the main stem stem.

      • The fact that for the greater part of its length the angle-shoot has the same structure as a normal stem is what would be expected; it does not, in my opinion, prove that the former is not a transformed rhizophore.
   2. 5

      Alternative form of angle shot.

      • As MacPhee says, “if an angle-shoot is within the rules and plus-EV then do it!”

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