8 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOOT ONE'S LOAD»
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: ...
SHOOT LINEN shoot (one's) linen. To make one's shirtcuffs project beyond one's
coatcuffs: coll.: 1878'(Yates, in The World, 16 ]an.). Cf. shoot your cuff, q.v. shoot (
one's) lines. To declaim vigorously: theatrical: from ca. 1870. shoot (one's) load.
Eric Partridge, Paul Beale, 1984
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Shorter Slang Dictionary
Adopted from the USA around 1918. shoot (oneself) in the foot to make a self-
damaging blunder or counterproductive error of judgment. Since the 1980s. See
also own goal. shoot (one's) load (of a man) to have an orgasm, to ejaculate.
shoot ...
Paul Beale, Eric Partridge, Rosalind Fergusson, 2003
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German/English Dictionary of Idioms
... + to come one's load, + to shoot one's load, + to cream one's jeans, + to have a
wet dream coll Mein Gott, da muß der Junge schließlich noch Angst haben, wenn
da ein Flecken im Oberbett ist?! Als wenn er was dafür könnte, wenn ihm einer ...
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Grand Dictionnaire Hachette-Oxford
... 2 ;(éjaculer) to shoot one's load;, to ejacuVlate Cse décharger vpr 1 (se libérer)
se d de qch to off-load sth (sur qn onto sb); j'ai pu me d du dossier/de toute la
comptabilité sur un collègue I managed to off-load the file/all the accounting onto
a ...
Marie-Hélène Corréard, Valerie Grundy, Jean-Benoit Ormal-Grenon, 2007
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... informal come, shoot one's load. 2 the sperm is ejaculated: emit, eject,
discharge, release, expel, excrete, disgorge, exude, spout, shoot out, squirt out,
spew out, spurt out. 3 'What?' he ejaculated: exclaim, cry out, call out, yell, sing
out, utter ...
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DICT OPHRYS ANGL FRANC RELIE:
... shoot a goal marquer un but; shoot pool jouer au billard américain; shoot one's
wad 1. dépenser tout ce qu'on a 2. dire ce qu'on pense 3. tirer son coup; shoot
one's load / wad éjacu- ler; shoot the works jouer ou claquer tout son fric (pour); ...
Jacques Chevallet, Christian Bouscaren, François Gallix, 1994
Here the veiled pun on 'shoot one's load' (to come to orgasm) seems to me
entirely in the spirit of Platonov, and in keeping with our principle of emphasizing
the physical when the chance arises. Lastly, I like to think Platonov would have ...
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What a Beautiful Sunday!
No foreigners, not even Volksdeutsche, have a right to brothel tickets. One does
not shoot one's load officially when one is not a German from the Reich. So if a
German, a real German, had appeared at the door at that precise moment,
Meiners ...
