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cheap shot
noun
a covert, unsportsmanlike, and illegal act of deliberate roughness, especially in football, often calculated to injure an opponent.
any mean or unsportsmanlike remark or action, especially one directed at a defenseless or vulnerable person.
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
They were physical, but Watkins was not injured on a cheap shot.
Yes, Trump animates his base with the ugly vitriol and cheap shots.
Baker: Please donate somebody that consistently intimidates opponents into not taking cheap shots at good Kraken players.
Old Kraken pal Martin Pospisil — he of ongoing cheap shots — avoided supplemental discipline after getting ejected again for leaving his feet on a dangerous check.
“I don’t even go there because there were other plays in that game, too, from the other team,” Cronin said, apparently alluding to cheap shots.
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