rifle shot

1. 1.

   the distance that a rifle bullet will carry

   “the target was out of rifle range”

   Synonymsrifle range

   Broaderrange

Questions about rifle shot

What does rifle shot mean?

rifle shot means "the distance that a rifle bullet will carry".

What is another word for rifle shot?

Close synonyms include rifle range. 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 rifle shot a common word?

rifle shot 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.