Definition of shot

"shot" in the noun sense

1. shooting, shot

the act of firing a projectile

"his shooting was slow but accurate"

2. shot, pellet

a solid missile discharged from a firearm

"the shot buzzed past his ear"

3. stroke, shot

sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand

"it took two strokes to get out of the bunker"

"a good shot requires good balance and tempo"

"he left me an almost impossible shot"

4. shot, crack

a chance to do something

"he wanted a shot at the champion"

5. shot, shooter

a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot

"he is a crack shot"

"a poor shooter"

6. scene, shot

a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film

7. injection, shot

the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe

"the nurse gave him a flu shot"

8. nip, shot

a small drink of liquor

"he poured a shot of whiskey"

9. shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe

an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

"his parting shot was `drop dead'"

"she threw shafts of sarcasm"

"she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"

10. guess, guesswork, guessing, shot, dead reckoning

an estimate based on little or no information

11. snapshot, snap, shot

an informal photograph usually made with a small hand-held camera

"my snapshots haven't been developed yet"

"he tried to get unposed shots of his friends"

12. shot

sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put

"he trained at putting the shot"

13. shot

an explosive charge used in blasting

14. shot

a blow hard enough to cause injury

"he is still recovering from a shot to his leg"

"I caught him with a solid shot to the chin"

15. shot

an attempt to score in a game

16. shot, stab

informal words for any attempt or effort

"he gave it his best shot"

"he took a stab at forecasting"

17. blastoff, shot

the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination

"shot" in the verb sense

1. shoot, hit, pip

hit with a missile from a weapon

2. shoot, pip

kill by firing a missile

3. blast, shoot

fire a shot

"the gunman blasted away"

4. film, shoot, take

make a film or photograph of something

"take a scene"

"shoot a movie"

5. shoot

send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly

"shoot a glance"

6. dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot

run or move very quickly or hastily

"She dashed into the yard"

7. tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck

move quickly and violently

"The car tore down the street"

"He came charging into my office"

8. shoot

throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective

"shoot craps"

"shoot a golf ball"

9. photograph, snap, shoot

record on photographic film

"I photographed the scene of the accident"

"She snapped a picture of the President"

10. shoot

emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully

"The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"

11. shoot

cause a sharp and sudden pain in

"The pain shot up her leg"

12. inject, shoot

force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing

"inject hydrogen into the balloon"

13. shoot

variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors

"shoot cloth"

14. shoot

throw dice, as in a crap game

15. fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away

spend frivolously and unwisely

"Fritter away one's inheritance"

16. shoot

score

"shoot a basket"

"shoot a goal"

17. shoot

utter fast and forcefully

"She shot back an answer"

18. shoot

measure the altitude of by using a sextant

"shoot a star"

19. shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout

produce buds, branches, or germinate

"the potatoes sprouted"

20. inject, shoot

give an injection to

"We injected the glucose into the patient's vein"

"shot" in the adjective sense

1. changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot

varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles

"changeable taffeta"

"chatoyant (or shot) silk"

"a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent"

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Quotations for shot

A fool's bolt is soon shot. [ Proverb ]

Even as the blind man shot the crow. [ Proverb ]

Every shot does not bring down a bird. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried:
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,
O'er the grave where our hero we buried. [ Rev. C. Wolfe ]

The lovely town was white with apple blooms.
And the great elms o'erhead
Dark shadows wove on their serial looms.
Shot through with golden thread. [ Longfellow ]

For daring nonsense seldom fails to hit,
Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit. [ Butler ]

He must be a good shot who always hits the mark. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Struck blind with beauty! shot with a woman's smile. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

He is not drunk gratis who pays his reason for his shot. [ Proverb ]

A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Sc. 4 ]

A bird may be caught with a snare, that will not be shot. [ Proverb ]

Air coming in at a window, is as bad as a cross-bow-shot. [ Proverb ]

He's a hot shot in a mustard pot, with his heels upright. [ Proverb ]

I will fight the battle of liberty as long as there is a shot in the locker. [ David Paul Jones ]

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of conviction. The leaden bullet is more fatal than when multiplied into shot. [ Hosea Ballou ]

I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Never hunt trouble. However dead a shot one may be, the gun he carries on such expeditions is sure to kick, or go off half-cocked. [ Artemus Ward ]

If it is a pleasure to be envied and shot at, to be maligned standing and to be despised falling, then it is a pleasure to be great. [ South ]

I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, I helped skin Bob. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

There may be as much courage displayed in enduring with resignation the sufferings of the soul, as in remaining firm under the showers of shot from a battery. [ Napoleon I ]

He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, Dust to dust, some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, I'll be waiting for you in heaven - with a gun. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment placing its victim naked on a bed of briars and bristles, thinly covered with rose-leaves, adorning his brow with a crown of gold, which burns into his brain; teasing, and fretting, and riddling him through and through with incessant discharges of hot shot from a masked battery; laying bare the most sensitive and shrinking nerves of his mind, and then blandly touching them with ice, or smilingly pricking them with needles. [ E. P. Whipple ]

shot in Scrabble®

The word shot is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters shot:

HOTS
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HOST
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word shot

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The 147 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In shot

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shot in Words With Friends™

The word shot is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters shot:

HOST
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HOTS
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The 159 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In shot

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Word Growth involving shot

Shorter words in shot

hot

Longer words containing shot

bigshot bigshots

bloodshot

bowshot bowshots

buckshot buckshots

bullshot bullshots

chainshot chainshots

crapshot

earshot

eyeshot eyeshots

grapeshot grapeshots

gunshot gunshots

headshot headshots

hotshot hotshots

moonshot moonshots

mugshot mugshots

multishot multishots

outshot outshots

overshot overshots

potshot potshots

reshot

rifleshot

screenshot screenshots

shotfirer shotfirers

shotgun shotgunned

shotgun shotgunner shotgunners

shotgun shotgunning

shotgun shotguns

shothole shotholes

shotless

shotlike

shotmaker shotmakers

shotmaking

shotpoint shotpoints

shotput shotputs

shots bigshots

shots bowshots

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shots bullshots

shots chainshots

shots eyeshots

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shots headshots

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shots mugshots

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shots shotsman

shots slapshots

shots slingshots

shots snapshots

shots undershots

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shotted

slingshot slingshots

snapshot snapshots

troubleshot

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