Meanings
nounline shooting (uncountable)
- slanguncountableWorld War II; RAF; World War II; RAFExaggerated or boastful stories; showing off.
Authentic RAF line shooting of that time was a form of jocular boasting which nobody was expected to believe[.]
1978, Hugh Verity, We landed by moonlight, Manchester: Crécy Publishing, →ISBN, page 131 - gerundparticiplepresentuncountablepresent participle and gerund of shoot a line
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