Headshot
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A portrait for branding or social media.
"I went home, I changed, I went to Walgreens and printed out a headshot of me and signed it ‘from your favorite local news reporter,’ and I sat in the parking lot for four hours until she said, ‘Hey, your passes to go backstage are at will-call’."
- 2 a shot aimed at a person's head wordnet
- 3 A gunshot to the head.
"Smelling victory amongst the gunpowder Graeme started shooting off his mouth. “True Counter-Strikers like me don’t even count kills unless they’re headshots or a knife in the back of the nut…”"
- 4 an attempt to put the soccer ball into the net by using the head wordnet
- 5 A one-page, double-sided resume of an actor, consisting of the actor's photograph (usually of the head and shoulders) on one side and their curriculum vitae on the other.
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- 6 a photograph of a person's head wordnet
- 1 To kill (someone) by shooting them in the head. slang, transitive
"SCOUTMASTER / HEADSHOTTED A SCOUT WITH THE BREECHSHOT."
Example
More examples"The same word can mean different things to different people: "headshot" doesn't mean the same thing to actors and video game players."
Etymology
From head + shot.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.