1. Murder by shooting someone down in cold blood
   "The gangster ordered a shoot-down of his rival"
    
2. The act of bringing down an aircraft by hitting with a missile or gunshot
   "The military confirmed the shoot-down of an enemy drone"

1. Shoot at and force to come down
   "the enemy shot down several of our aircraft";
   - down [informal], land
    
2. Reject or block a proposal, motion, or candidate through a formal vote
   "he shot down the student's proposal";
   - kill, defeat, vote down, vote out
    
3. Move quickly and violently
   "The car shot down the street";
   - tear [informal], shoot, charge, buck, bomb [Brit, informal], scream [informal]

Derived forms: shot down, shooting down, shoot-downs, shoots down

See also: shoot up

Type of: barrel [informal], belt [informal], belt along [informal], blackball, bucket [informal], bucket along [informal], execution, hasten, hie [archaic], hit, hotfoot, hurry, murder, negative, pelt [informal], pelt along [informal], pip, race, rocket [informal], rush, rush along, shoot, slaying, speed, step on it [informal], travel rapidly, veto, whizz [informal], whizz along [informal], wing [informal], zip [informal], zoom, zoom along [informal]

Encyclopedia: Shoot-down