potshot

noun

1. A shot taken at an easy or random target.

   “to take a potshot at”

   “Bannister leaped up, ran lightly across the intervening space, and with his repeater took a potshot at the galloping horseman.”

2. (figuratively)Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.

   “He takes his share of potshots (mostly at the Da Vinci surgical robot), but the conscience of the film is in the stories of Essure, a procedure marketed to women as a hassle-free alternative to tubal ligation”

   “And until recently, anyone could read his Facebook posts, which included vulgar potshots at Nancy Pelosi and her husband and a pronouncement that supporters of Joseph R. Biden Jr. suffered from a “mental affliction.””

verb

1. To fire potshots.

   “Howard appeared in the doorway. “Say, Sig, go down to the corral and saddle up Teddy for Steve, will you? Some of his friends have been potshotting at him again. No damage done, except to my feelings, but there's nothing like being careful.””

2. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of potshoot

adj

1. (obsolete, slang)Drunk.