shot put

1. 1.

   an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball is hurled as far as possible

   Broaderfield event

Questions about shot put

What does shot put mean?

shot put means "an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball is hurled as far as possible".

Is shot put a common word?

shot put 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.