shoot-down

1. 1.

   murder by shooting someone down in cold blood

   Broadermurder

Questions about shoot-down

What does shoot-down mean?

shoot-down means "murder by shooting someone down in cold blood".

How many syllables are in shoot-down?

shoot-down has 2 syllables: shoot--down. The stress falls on "shoot-".

Is shoot-down a common word?

shoot-down 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.