• n.
    ⦿an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
    lexical concept
  • his parting shot was ‘drop dead’
  • she takes a dig at me every chance she gets
  • she threw shafts of sarcasm

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:barb
  2. enl:dig
  3. enl:gibe
  4. enl:jibe
  5. enl:shaft
  6. enl:shot
  7. enl:slam
wn:interlingual indexili:i72054

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • gibejibeslam
  • barbdiggibejibeshaftshotslam