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clay pigeon

noun as in moving target for shooting

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And there was Louis the Goon—his little clay pigeon—in one of the booths with a doll.

He is as erratic in his flight as a clay pigeon, though it is tolerably safe to assume that he will not jump backward.

I, with many misgivings, had a clay pigeon thrown, but the gun refused to go off.

The annexed engravings show pictures of clay-pigeon shooting and of the firing of a ten-inch disappearing gun at Sandy Hook.

In that which was left of a clay pigeon he would take not the faintest interest—the scent of it was paltry.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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