If I was at the range with a bunch of guys, I would 100% argue Derek's definition.
However, your wife with a 9mm Kurtz at 100 yards, making the shot with style points - Pay Up Buddy! (^_^)
Technicalities never makes the couch feel better.
BTW, speaking as Range Safety Officer, those kind of shots are really not a good idea as the ricochet could have popped it up over the berm just as easily. There are quite a few clubs that don't allow pistols at the longer ranges for that reason. Don't know if yours does or doesn't of if the other side of your berm is just dense forest, but I just want to mention it before others reading this try it and get in trouble with their club for it. Most people don't realize just how fast some pistol rounds drop.
I know, spoil sport. I'd just hate to see any NES member responsible for the next news story where some stray round landed in the back yard of some lawsuit happy liberal.