shot
UK /ʃɒt/ · US /ʃɑt/ adjective, noun, verb, interjection
Also a form of shoot
Forms shots shotting shotted
- adjective Tired, weary. “I have to go to bed now; I’m shot.”
- adjective Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
- adjective (colloquial) Worn out or broken. “The rear axle will have to be replaced. It’s shot.”
- adjective (of material, especially silk) Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an iridescent appearance. “The cloak was shot through with silver threads.”
- noun The result of launching a projectile or bullet. “The shot was wide of the mark.”
- noun (sports) The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal. “They took the lead on a last-minute shot.”
- noun (countable, athletics) The heavy iron ball used for the shot put. “The shot flew twenty metres, and nearly landed on the judge's foot.”
- noun (uncountable, athletics) The athletics event of shot put.
- noun (uncountable) Small metal balls, or other hard objects of various shapes, used as ammunition, especially in shotgun shells or artillery shells. “Steel shot, unlike lead shot, avoids contaminating the land with spent lead.”
- noun (uncountable, military, historical) Metal or stone balls (or similar), not necessarily small, used as ammunition. “The shot for this ship's deck guns, in that day, consisted only of solid iron balls such as ten-pounders.”
- noun Someone who shoots (a gun, longbow, etc.); a person reckoned as to their aim. “He'd make a bad soldier, since he's a lousy shot.”
- noun (figurative) An opportunity or attempt. “I'd like just one more shot at winning this game.”
- verb (transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.
- verb (transitive, MLE) To sell illegal drugs; to deal.
- verb (transitive, obsolete) To feed small shot to (a horse), as a fraudulent means of disguising broken-windedness.
- interjection (colloquial, New Zealand) An expression of gratitude, similar to thank you.
Synonyms
exhausted fried bleareyed bleary bleary-eyed bone-tired bushed tired out spent wrecked drained dog-tired dog-weary fatigued forfairn forlagen forworn heavyeyed jaded languid shooting pellet stroke crack shooter scene injection nip shaft slam
Etymology
The past participle of shoot.
Inherited from Middle English schot, from Old English sċeot, from Proto-Germanic *skutą; compare the doublet scot.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See Shoot, v. t., 8.
- noun A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.
- noun The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.
- noun A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.
Etymology [AS. scot, sceot, fr. sceótan to shoot; akin to D. sschot, Icel. skot. sq. root159. See Scot a share, Shoot, v. t., and cf. Shot a shooting.]
Etymology [OE. shot, schot, AS. gesceot a missile; akin to D. schot a shot, shoot, G. schuss, geschoss a missile, Icel. skot a throwing, a javelin, and E. shoot, v.t. sq. root159. See Shoot, and cf. Shot a share.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “shot”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details