shot out

shot out

1. simple past and past participle of shoot out

shot out (not comparable)

1. Of an area, having had all game eradicated from hunting.
2. Of a species or population, completely extirpated from an area due to overshooting by hunters.
   • 1956, Durward Leon Allen, Pheasants in North America, Stackpole Company, page 456:

     [S]tates may be under pressure to stock cock birds because locally they have been "shot out."

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