English Explanatory Dictionary

shot heard round the world

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. The opening volleys of the Battles of Lexington and Concord during the American Revolution.
  2. A 1951 home run by Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants
  3. Any cataclysmic event

Word forms

shot heard round the world shot heard 'round the world

Etymology

From the 1837 poem Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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