'long shot' definitions:
Definition of 'long shot'
(from WordNet)
noun
A venture that involves great risk but promises great rewards
noun
A contestant that is unlikely to win
Synonyms of 'long shot'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accident,
- adventure,
- bare possibility,
- boom shot,
- casualty,
- chance hit,
- close-up,
- contingency,
- contingent,
- dark horse,
- deuce shot,
- equivalent odds,
- even break,
- even chance,
- fighting chance,
- fluke,
- follow-focus shot,
- fortuity,
- freak accident,
- full shot,
- gambling chance,
- good chance,
- group shot,
- hap,
- happening,
- happenstance,
- hardly a chance,
- hazard,
- hundred-to-one shot,
- improbability,
- kinescope,
- little chance,
- little opportunity,
- long odds,
- lucky shot,
- matte shot,
- medium shot,
- motion picture,
- no chance,
- odds,
- off chance,
- outside chance,
- pan shot,
- panoramic shot,
- poor bet,
- poor lookout,
- poor possibility,
- poor prospect,
- price,
- process shot,
- rap shot,
- remote possibility,
- retake,
- short odds,
- shot,
- slim chance,
- small chance,
- square odds,
- take,
- travel shot,
- trucking shot,
- unlikelihood,
- zoom shot