HEADSHOT

headshot

(noun) a shot aimed at a person’s head

headshot

(noun) an attempt to put the soccer ball into the net by using the head

headshot

(noun) a photograph of a person’s head

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

headshot (plural headshots)

A portrait for branding and/or social media.

A gunshot to the head.

A one-page, double-sided resume of an actor, consisting of the actor's photograph (usually of the head and shoulders) on one side and his/her curriculum vitae on the other.

Anagrams

• hot-heads, hotheads

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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