Definition of "shoot for" []

• Have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Some rosebug, founding a colony; some green "worm i 'the bud," choosing for himself a pink house, which he will straightway turn into a ruin; some leaf-roller, perhaps, tying up the whole end of a young shoot for his own private apartments."
• "She'd prop dimes up on the fifty-yard range and shoot for the glare, making presents of the bent coins for her goddaughter and her friends."