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CROSSHAIRS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A center of interest
Example:
the war on terrorism has put Saddam Hussein in the crosshairs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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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