- shot (with something) (of cloth, hair, etc.) having another colour showing through or mixed with the main colour
- shot silk
- black hair shot with grey
- a cloudy sky shot with streaks of sunlight
- [not before noun] (informal) in a very bad condition; destroyed
- The brakes on this car are shot.
- I'm shot—I'm too old for this job.
- After the accident his nerves were shot to pieces.
Word Originnoun Old English sc(e)ot, gesc(e)ot of Germanic origin; related to German Geschoss, from the base of the verb shoot.
Idioms
See shot in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe/get shot of somebody/something
- (British English, informal) to get rid of somebody/something so you no longer have the problems they cause
- I'll be glad to get shot of this car.
- By the end of the week I just couldn’t wait to get shot of them.
shot through with something
- containing a lot of a particular colour, quality or feature
- a voice shot through with emotion
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