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head shot vs headshot

Both 'head shot' and 'headshot' are correct, but 'headshot' is more commonly used as a single word in English. It is used to refer to a photograph of a person's head, especially one taken for use on a website or in a publication.

Last updated: March 31, 2024 • 734 views

head shot

This phrase is correct, but less commonly used than 'headshot'.

This phrase can be used when referring to a shot aimed at the head, such as in a video game or a movie scene.
  • I had a beautiful head shot.
  • Mirakuru won't do anything against a head shot.
  • This is your head shot from 1981.
  • Here's my head shot, just in case you know anybody.
  • No, the head shot's the only true stopper.
  • It's like a head shot!
  • Mintoya was killed with a head shot.
  • A head shot, I think.
  • I had a beautiful head shot.
  • Time to find out what a head shot does to a zombie.
  • Ultimately, we need line of sight for a head shot.
  • I'll email them to you later, but I'm not sure we got an appropriate head shot.
  • Yes, yes, but my head shot used to hang right here.
  • This is your head shot from 1981. special skills:
  • Have I given you my head shot?
  • Find the best range for a head shot Sir
  • Head shot's did you get the bullet?
  • His old head shot.
  • Probably a head shot.
  • What about a head shot?

Alternatives:

  • shot to the head
  • head-targeted shot

headshot

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This term is commonly used to refer to a photograph of a person's head, especially for professional purposes.
  • But do not use your headshot.
  • Leave the signed headshot I gave you on my desk.
  • A headshot is the only decisive way to disable a droid.
  • I said "go" Daddy took a headshot.
  • Take a headshot, and here, a Superbeasto bumper sticker.
  • I think she could use a new headshot.
  • But thank you for tying your headshot around a brick and throwing it through my window.
  • What you do in this room right now will render that headshot null and void.
  • Here's a headshot guy and a new Backstage
  • I need to make copies of my headshot, send them off to agents and sign up for a new acting class.
  • You shoot from a distance, you can't risk a headshot.
  • We can't just waste it with a headshot?
  • And I say, "That's what it says on my headshot."
  • I sent a headshot, résumé and an invitation to a performance of "Streetcar Named Desire."
  • You're using your headshot?
  • I brought a headshot.
  • The poster's a headshot.
  • Whereas a featured extra is a person whose headshot we pull off a pile, has no lines and sits in that tent over there till we're ready for her.
  • Maybe I should submit my headshot.
  • You get close enough... you could take a headshot.

Alternatives:

  • portrait
  • profile picture

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