moon shot

1. 1.

   the launching of a spacecraft to the moon

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Questions about moon shot

What does moon shot mean?

moon shot means "the launching of a spacecraft to the moon".

Is moon shot a common word?

moon shot is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.