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What is a parting shot?

What is a parting shot? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) An insult or barbed comment issued as the speaker departs or the conversation comes to an end.
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You'll be glad to know that the restaurant's parting shot, a rather insipid brandy Alexander, was as horrible as anything I've tasted this side of George IV Bridge.
And in his sign-off, the veteran journalist took a parting shot at the industry that increasingly values entertainment over news.
Loki only had a moment to make a parting shot at Trev before they got lost in the city streets.
Darryl mounted Firedancer and rode past them, but he couldn't resist a final parting shot.
At the same time, it was a parting shot at my mother's hostile family, a sad little act of revenge on people who would not be there to see it.
Then a flash of inspiration hits her, and she spins around to offer a final parting shot.

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