shoot

shoot
 v.— «Lunch shooters took lunch orders for other brewery workers. Nobody knows how the term originated exactly. The term “shoot me a beer” was also used by beer bottlers. “Shoot” in brewery parlance is synonomous with retrieve.» —“Dead Lunch Shooters” Media Mayhem (St. Louis, Mo.) Apr. 27, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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