noseshot

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noun

A range of smell, a distance in which something is detectable by smell.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounnoseshot (uncountable)

alternative nose-shot

  1. idiomaticuncountableA range of smell, a distance in which something is detectable by smell.

    As she approached closer, though, the load of rabbits came into vivid noseshot, and the saxophonist's nose wrinkled at the reek.

    2002, Michael Meehan, Stormy weather, page 74
    1 more example

    ...Fartman's thunder has been stolen by a character in the 1999 film Mystery Man named Spleen (played by Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman) whose power was his ability to discharge farts so lethally putrid that they incapacitated anyone within noseshot.

    2006, Jim Dawson, Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart, page 73

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APA

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Chicago

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