1. A term used in the game of Hearts when you attempt to collect every Heart, the Queen of Spades, and sometimes the Jack as well. Normally pulled off when you've been dealt a bunch of high cards or nearly an entire suite, or your opponents are frickin' retarded.

2. To attempt the near-impossible.
1. YOU HAD A FRICKIN' ACE OF HEARTS, BUT YOU PLAYED A TWO!? WAY TO LET HIM SHOOT THE MOON!!

2. 5 star Freebird on Guitar Hero II? You're shootin' the moon!
by dougwastaken September 18, 2007
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- To take a risk and cheat in a school exam which may result

in gaining high grades.
- to pass and excel at card games, an exam or other

activities.
- to ask for the best or the most you could hope for.
- To take a risk which may result in great rewards; to

succeed after taking such a risk.
- To attain great heights, a high value, or a numerically high

measurement.
- Reham used to be a smart ass, but never gained high marks at school, but once she { shot the moon} in all her final exams, she became one of the first top ten students in the country.
- What? You'll flunk the test? Are you mad? Don't you have eyes to see? Are you driving me nuts? Don't you know that our classmate, Reham, {shot the moon} a week ago and passed with an honor? Go and {shoot the moon} or you will fail.
by Iyad Mahdood January 5, 2013
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to launch your car into the air by using some form of a ramp
"Bo, looks like we're gonna have to shoot the moon" Cooter - Dukes of Hazzard
by Stuntman Eric October 6, 2007
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verb, intransitive: during intercourse to withdraw at climax and ejaculate across her bare buttocks as is commonly done in x-rated films.
So did you cum inside her? No man, she wanted me to shoot the moon.
by shoots-the-moon September 7, 2010
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to have anal sex
I heard Lorena finally let Andrew shoot the moon

Damn what a lucky guy
by The Moon Prof. December 6, 2009
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When your paranoid ass thinks Five-Oh got your crib under heavy Surveillance, usually signified by some shady Danza type work-van parked outside on the street for too long.

For example: Yo, Eric, looks like we got Shoot the Moon peepin’ the joint, hide the Merch….
Like that part in UP In Smoke when the pig cop yells "Shoot The Moon" out of the fly of the spy laundry vehicle.
by Jimmy Dissenti September 6, 2007
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