nounmasculinepl: buckshots
chumbo de caça, munição de chumbo grosso
1. Large lead pellets used as ammunition in shotguns, typically for hunting large game
The hunter loaded his shotgun with buckshot before heading into the woods.
O caçador carregou sua espingarda com chumbo de caça antes de entrar na floresta.
2. A scattered or random pattern of distribution, as if sprayed by buckshot
The bullets hit the wall in a buckshot pattern.
As balas atingiram a parede em um padrão espalhado de chumbo de caça.
Buckshot is commonly used in hunting culture in both the USA and Brazil, particularly for hunting deer and wild boar. The term is also used metaphorically in both cultures to describe scattered or dispersed patterns, whether in gunfire, criticism, or general distribution.
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