Definition of "shot"

Tell me true, are you not glad to be fairly shot of him?

1819, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter V, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], page 62

... but he finds it hard to resist helping the boss's sister, who also works there and whose body "is more shot than mine."

2004, Garret Keizer, Help: The Original Human Dilemma, page 50

Thompson girl, I'm stranded at the Unique Motel / Thompson girl, winterfighter's shot on the car as well

1998, The Tragically Hip, “Thompson Girl”, in Phantom Power

England's attacking impetus was limited to one shot from Lampard that was comfortably collected by keeper Iker Casillas, but for all Spain's domination of the ball his England counterpart Joe Hart was unemployed.

2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport‎

For two years Templeton has given individual attention to Krenz. The young man has reciprocated by giving at least two hours each day to practice in the shot and discus.

1929 July 4, Harry L. Borba, “The Superman of Track”, in The Vernon Daily Record, volume 4, number 209, Vernon, Texas, page 6

Accurſt be he that firſt inuented war,They knew not, ah, they knew not ſimple men,How thoſe were hit by pelting Cannon ſhot,Stand ſtaggering like a quiuering Aſpen leafe,Fearing the force of Boreas boiſtrous blaſts.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act II, scene iv

Sir William was a Shot and could not support the idea of losing such a Day, even for such a Cause.

1788, Jane Austen, ‘Sir William Mountague’, Juvenilia

"But tell me, was it he who shot that goblin-hare down by Christiania, which you told me about once?" "Oh, that hare! No, that was a professional shot from those parts called Brandte-Lars."

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 78

As a shot, I will only refer you to my own game-book; and if, after examining the records contained therein, you can show me an equally proficient man in that special line, well — I'll take off my hat to him.

1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major

You won't see me buying a round of Jägerbombs for girls half my age because I know when I have no shot.

2009, David P. Murphy, Phil Torcivia, Rebecca Shockley, Such a Nice Guy

There are no decent galactic dating services. To have a shot at romance, you need to talk to people.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC

Spain’s acting prime minister, the socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, has a fresh, if fraught, shot at returning to power after his conservative rival Alberto Núñez Feijóo failed in his attempt to take office in an ill-tempered investiture debate that followed July’s inconclusive general election.

2023 September 29, Sam Jones, “Alberto Núñez Feijóo fails to win Spanish MPs’ backing to become PM”, in The Guardian‎

Schwarzenegger also is taking nasty shots from his own party, as GOP conservatives bash some of his appointments as Kennedyesque and traitorous to party values.

2003 November 16, Carla Marinucci, “On inauguration eve, 'Aaaarnold' stands tall”, in San Francisco Chronicle, retrieved 18 Apr. 2009

Yet still while I have got / Enough to pay the shot / Of Boniface, both gruff and greedy O!

1835, The Fisher's Garland

Even if everyone else is taking close-up shots of the crumpled body of a rock climber who fell to his death, and your photographer did too, maybe you don't feel the need to air that shot.

2004, Robert Thompson, Cindy Malone, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook: A Television News Survival Guide, page 4

On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68

His order to me was, to see the top Chains put upon the Cables, and the Guns shotted.

1681, Robert Knox, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon

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.

2011, “Chyna”, in How I Escaped a Girl Gang: Rolling in a London Girl Gang

[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.

2016 March 4, “3 Wheel-Ups” (track 4), in Made in the Manor‎, performed by Kano (British musician),Giggs (rapper),Wiley (musician)

Here no shots are where all sharers be.

1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volumes (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857,

A man is never […] welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say "Welcome".

c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene v]