shot
adjective
- exhausted, worn out
noun
- An element of cinematography
- act or process of recording (on film or digitally)
- drink a small glass of liquid in a single backwards motion
- result of launching a projectile or bullet
- the act of launching a ball or other object towards a goal
- heavy iron ball used for the shot put
- small metal balls used as ammunition
- a person who uses a firearm
- a serving of alcohol
- a serving of espresso
- a vaccination or injection
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ʃɒt/ / /ʃɑt/
adj
Etymology: The past participle of shoot.
- Tired, weary.
“I have to go to bed now; I’m shot.”
- Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
“Tell me true, are you not glad to be fairly shot of him?”
- Worn out or broken.
“The rear axle will have to be replaced. It’s shot.”
“... but he finds it hard to resist helping the boss's sister, who also works there and whose body "is more shot than mine."”
- Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an iridescent appearance.
“The cloak was shot through with silver threads.”
intj
- An expression of gratitude, similar to thank you.
noun
Etymology: See scot (“a share”).
- A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.
“Drink up. It's his shot.”
“Here no shots are where all sharers be.”
verb
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English schot, from Old English sceot, from Proto-Germanic *skutą; compare the doublet scot.
- To load (a gun) with shot.
“His order to me was, to see the top Chains put upon the Cables, and the Guns shotted.”
- To sell illegal drugs; to deal.
“The mandem all used to go round there and get head off her, the sister blowing the man line by line while her brother shotted downstairs in the stairwell.”
“[Verse 2:Kano]:If you've been shotting in the manor from way back when and you ain't on a kilo ting, I don't wanna hear about cunch and food and tings, man don't do those tings.”
- To feed small shot to (a horse), as a fraudulent means of disguising broken-windedness.