by AnalCurtains December 21, 2008
by Tom Wells April 4, 2008
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.
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!
2. 5 star Freebird on Guitar Hero II? You're shootin' the moon!
by dougwastaken September 18, 2007
The game of hearts is scored in a golf sort of way. The lower the score the better. Usually the game is played to 100; when one player reaches one hundred, the game ends. If playing for money, payoff is based on point differential, but it has many variations.
All hearts are worth a point each, and the queen of spades is 13.
So you have one of two objectives in each hand: sluff off as many hearts and the Queen as possible to stay low or ... if you think you have the hand, "shoot the moon" by capturing all the hearts and the queen. If you do, each of your opponents is "assessed" 26 points. (shooting the moon)
It's a great play, but a risky one. A player looking to shoot the moon often gets all but say 1 or 2 points. So instead of his opponents being hit for 26 each, they get zero and you would eat 24 points(if another player had, say, 2 hearts)
All hearts are worth a point each, and the queen of spades is 13.
So you have one of two objectives in each hand: sluff off as many hearts and the Queen as possible to stay low or ... if you think you have the hand, "shoot the moon" by capturing all the hearts and the queen. If you do, each of your opponents is "assessed" 26 points. (shooting the moon)
It's a great play, but a risky one. A player looking to shoot the moon often gets all but say 1 or 2 points. So instead of his opponents being hit for 26 each, they get zero and you would eat 24 points(if another player had, say, 2 hearts)
by Mongo Gerry March 13, 2010
(Expression used in Alleghenies, U.S. South). To expose one's buttocks in public, especially out of a car or pickup truck window, while passing another vehicle.
by mollymeaghanmalarkey September 9, 2014
- 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.
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.
- 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
to move out in the middle of the night when you can't pay your rent. Usually items you own, like furniture, are left behind because you're leaving so quickly. Chiefly British, used by George Orwell in 'Down and Out in Paris and London'.
"because we're shooting the moon at 2:30 this morning, we're only taking the smallest, easiest to carry things with us."
by Big Orange August 9, 2007