CROSSHAIRS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A center of interest

Example:

the war on terrorism has put Saddam Hussein in the crosshairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("crosshairs" is a kind of...):

center; center of attention; centre; centre of attention (the object upon which interest and attention focuses)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

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