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A.Word.A.Day--cheap shot

cheap shot (cheep shot) noun

1. An act of intentional roughness against an opponent, especially in a contact sport.

2. An unsportsmanlike remark or action directed at a known weakness of another.

"We don't care if he's Time magazine's `Person of the Year' or not, that was a cheap shot New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani took at Boston and its police." Editorial: Rudy Giuliani Shows Skin Still Very Thin, The Boston Herald, Dec 29, 2001.

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