Citations:bullshot
English citations of bullshot
Noun: cocktail made from vodka and beef bouillon
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- 1959, Ian Fleming, “The Hildebrand Rarity”, in For Your Eyes Only, 20th edition, New York: Signet, page 124:
- Mr. Krest drank three double bullshots–vodka in iced consommé–before luncheon, and beer with the meal.
- 2002 May 3, Richard Yates, “Saying Goodbye to Sally”, in The Collected Stories of Richard Yates, New York: Picador, →ISBN, page 323:
- And the point is simply that I'd like to know how the fuck I can make bullshots without any fucking bouillon, you follow me?
- 2003 June 3, Richard Chamberlain, Shattered Love: A Memoir[1], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OL:
- She said, "A bullshot?" A bullshot is a fairly mean concoction of vodka and beef bouillon.
- 2012 May 12, Elizabeth Sharland, Love Beyond the Footlights, iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL:
- We went to the Ritz, sat in the Palm Court, drank Manhattans, ate all the nuts, then took a cab to the Savoy, went upstairs into the American Bar and ordered two bullshots, as we knew Noel Coward always drank them whenever he was there.
Noun: a phony screenshot
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- 2005 September 12, Jerry Holkins with Mike Krahulik, “Potent New Lingo”, in Penny Arcade[2], retrieved 2012-06-15:
- Exhibit A is a textbook example of a bullshot, an image ginned up by marketing and foisted on people who don't know any better.
- 2008 January 15, Blake Snow, “The truth behind doctored screenshots”, in GamePro[4], →ISSN, retrieved 2012-06-16:
- Faked, enhanced, or otherwise augmented screenshots are commonly called "bullshots." Their intent is to make a game look more appealing than it actually is, and their occurrence has largely existed since video games were first commercialized. So are bullshots misleading or just good marketing?
- 2009 August 15, Richard Leadbetter, “Media Manipulation: the "Bullshot" phenomenon”, in Eurogamer[6], retrieved 2012-06-15:
- Even the world's most technically proficient game-makers — industry leaders in graphical and gameplay innovation — seem shy to release actual screenshots of their forthcoming games, preferring instead to unleash super-scaled bullshots, or enhanced videos.
- 2010 June 24, Tom Francis, “Watch 8 minutes of Brink in action”, in PC Gamer[7], →ISSN, retrieved 2012-06-15:
- If your bullshot detector said anything along the lines of “MEEEP”, “BOOOP” or “CLANG” at the time, you may prefer this eight minute, high-def video of the game in action, taken by German site Xbox View.
- 2012 March 9, David Hinkle, “The ‘bullshot’ dates back to Alone in the Dark”, in Joystiq[8], retrieved 2012-06-15:
- The thing is, scientists have been trying to determine the genesis of this heinous act for quite some time now — and we think we've found a prominent example of one of the earliest bullshots in Alone in the Dark.
- 2012 June 4, Adam Barnes, “Crysis 3 Coming February, CryEngine 3 Looks Outstanding”, in NowGamer[10], retrieved 2012-06-16:
- They might look like bullshots, but after what we've seen of the game in action they're very believable.
- 2012 December 6, Luke Plunkett, “The Year’s Worst Bullshots, aka, Screenshots That Lied To You”, in Kotaku[11], retrieved 2012-12-06:
- It was back in 2005 that Penny Arcade first coined the term "bullshot", giving a definition to the practice of doctoring video game screenshots to make them look better than the game actually is.