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(cheep shot)
noun
1. An act of intentional roughness against an opponent, especially in a contact sport.
2. An unsportsmanlike remark or action directed at a known weakness of another.
| Idioms: cheap shot |
An unfair or unsporting verbal attack, as in You called him an amateur? That's really taking a cheap shot. The term originated in sports, especially American football, where it signifies deliberate roughness against an unprepared opponent. [Slang; second half of 1900s]
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