Course and Shoot

Course

Course verb - To proceed or move quickly.

Usage example: racehorses coursing down the track

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Shoot and course are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shoot" instead a verb "Course".

Nearby Words: coursed, coursing, courser, courseware

Shoot verb - To proceed or move quickly.

Usage example: some show-off shot past all the other skiers on the slope

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Course and shoot are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Course" instead a verb "Shoot".

Nearby Words: shooting, shooter, shooed

good	good course	good shoot
long	long course	long shoot
normal	normal course	normal shoot
short	short course	short shoot
Other adjectives: single, difficult, small, actual, entire, huge, quick, new, final, worst, last, different, literal.

electricity	course electricity	shoot electricity
hostage	course hostage	shoot hostage

You could Take The Bullet yourself, of course, but if you are The Gunslinger, there's no better way to show off your Improbable Aiming Skills than to shoot that bullet instead.

Source: Shoot the Bullet
There's of course the general "shoot them in the limbs until they die" way of torturing, but then again, you could always lasso them and THEN shoot at their feet until they don't HAVE feet anymore!

Source: The Joys of Torturing Mooks
If anything it proves that importing is not necessary to get some of the most hardcore shoot-em-up action ever put on a CD (unless you are in Australia of course).

Source: Nintendo Hard / Shoot'em Ups

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