cheap shot

Definitions

1. 1

   A deliberate, unsportsmanlike, and potentially illegal act of aggression against an…

   A deliberate, unsportsmanlike, and potentially illegal act of aggression against an opponent.

   • Attacking a goalie trying to make a save is a total cheap shot, I think.
2. 2

   A remark that unfairly disparages an obvious vulnerability of the target.

   • School bullies always take cheap shots at kids with glasses.
   • It's a charge Rubin breezily makes while dredging up the fact that, years ago, Clinton got cheated on, itself a cheap shot that is irrelevant to the controversy at hand.
   • He got right to it with an opening jab against “old ideas,” and then a direct slap, asking Biden: “Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?” Um, no. It was a big backfire, a cheap shot that fell to the floor.

The neighborhood