targets

• aims
• ambition
• ambitions
• apes
• aspirations
• bad-mouths
• baits
• barracks
• belittles
• bournes
• bourns
• bugs
• burlesques
• butt
• butts
• byword
• caricatures
• catcalls
• chaffs
• chumps
• decries
• derides
• derisions
• designs
• desires
• destination
• destinations
• disparages
• dreams
• dupes
• duty
• end
• ends
• fall guys
• fools
• function
• game
• gibes
• goals
• goats
• grails
• ground zero
• gulls
• harasses
• harries
• hassles
• heckles
• holy grails
• hopes
• ideals
• ideas
• imitates
• intention
• intentions
• intents
• jeers
• jests
• jibes
• jives
• jokes
• joshes
• kids
• lampoons
• laughingstocks
• lightning rods
• mark
• marks
• meanings
• mimics
• minds
• mockeries
• mocks
• monkeys
• needles
• nirvanas
• object
• objective
• objectives
• objects
• parodies
• parrots
• pesters
• pigeon
• pigeons
• pilgarlics
• pillories
• plans
• plots
• point
• points
• pooh-poohs
• poohs
• pretensions
• prey
• preys
• projects
• purpose
• purposes
• puts down
• quarry
• quizzes
• rags
• rallies
• razzes
• ribs
• rides
• ridicules
• saps
• satirizes
• scapegoat
• scapegoats
• schemes
• scorn
• scorns
• scouts
• shoots down
• sitting duck
• sitting ducks
• skewers
• sport
• sports
• spot
• suckers
• taunts
• teases
• termini
• terminuses
• things
• torments
• travesties
• tweaks
• twits
• use
• victim
• victims
• whipping boys
• wishes

• applauds
• approves
• baiters
• caricaturists
• commends
• darlings
• defamers
• deriders
• endorses
• favorites
• gossipers
• gossips
• hecklers
• indorses
• insulters
• lampooners
• libelers
• libelists
• means
• methods
• mockers
• needlers
• parodists
• pets
• ribbers
• ridiculers
• sanctions
• satirists
• scoffers
• scorners
• talebearers
• tattlers
• tattletales
• taunters
• teasers
• teases
• tormenters
• tormentors
• torturers
• traducers
• troublemakers
• ways

• noun
  1. A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
  2. A goal or objective.
  3. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
  4. A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
  5. A bearing representing a buckler.
  6. The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
  7. The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
  8. A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
  9. The number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win.
  10. The tenor of a metaphor.
  11. The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
  12. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
  13. A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
  14. A tassel or pendant.
  15. A shred; a tatter.
• verb
  1. To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
  2. To aim for as an audience or demographic.
  3. To produce code suitable for.

• The company set new sales targets for the next quarter.
• The military identified potential targets for the airstrike.
• The program targets students from underprivileged backgrounds.
• The security system detects and tracks moving targets automatically.
• The marketing team carefully selects its targets for advertising campaigns.

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