line-shooting

What does line-shooting mean?

line-shooting means "an instance of boastful talk".

How many syllables are in line-shooting?

line-shooting has 4 syllables: li-ne--shoo-ting. The stress falls on "ne-".

What is another word for line-shooting?

Close synonyms include brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is line-shooting a common word?

line-shooting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for line-shooting come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.