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CROSSHAIRS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crosshairs mean?
• CROSSHAIRS (noun)
The noun CROSSHAIRS has 1 sense:
1. a center of interest
Familiarity information: CROSSHAIRS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A center of interest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Context example:
the war on terrorism has put Saddam Hussein in the crosshairs
Hypernyms ("crosshairs" is a kind of...):
center; center of attention; centre; centre of attention (the object upon which interest and attention focuses)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
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