skybust
v.— «Forget about magnums or, at least, don’t believe it’s a license to skybust. Skybusting is awful. There’s simply no point in shooting too high. You either miss, wasting ammunition, or you cripple, wasting ducks.» —“Savvy in the slough” by Ron Schara Star-Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota) Oct. 12, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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