1. The act of firing a projectile
   "his shot was slow but accurate";
   - shooting
    
2. A solid missile discharged from a firearm
   "the shot buzzed past his ear";
   - pellet
    
3. (sport) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
   "a good shot requires good balance and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible shot";
   - stroke
    
4. The launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination
   "The rocket's shot into orbit was perfectly executed";
   - blastoff
    
5. A chance to do something
   "he wanted a shot at the champion";
   - crack
    
6. [informal] Any attempt or effort
   "he gave it his best shot";
   - stab [informal]
    
7. An attempt to score in a game
   "The player's shot at the buzzer won the game"
    
8. Throwing the basketball toward the hoop
   "his shot hit the rim and bounced out";
   - basketball shot
    
9. A small drink of liquor
   "he poured a shot of whiskey";
   - nip, slug
    
10. An informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
    "he tried to get unposed shots of his friends";
    - snapshot, snap [informal]
     
11. A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
    "The director called for another take of the crucial shot";
    - scene
     
12. The act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe
    "the nurse gave him a flu shot";
    - injection, jab [Brit, informal]
     
13. A person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)
    "he is a crack shot";
    - shooter
     
14. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
    "his parting shot was ‘drop dead’";
    - shaft, slam, dig [informal], barb, jibe, gibe
     
15. An estimate based on little or no information
    "His shot about the project cost was way off";
    - guess, guesswork, guessing, dead reckoning
     
16. Sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put
    "he trained at putting the shot"
     
17. An explosive charge used in blasting
    "The miners set off a controlled shot to break through the rock face"
     
18. 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"

1. [informal] Extremely exhausted
   "the day's shopping left her shot";
   - knackered [Brit, informal], drained, zonked [informal], shagged [Brit, informal], zonked out [informal], deadbeat [Brit, informal], shagged out [Brit, informal], stonkered [Brit, Austral, NZ, informal], shattered [Brit, informal], exhausted, dog-tired [informal], fagged [Brit, informal], fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out, gone, pooped [N. Amer, informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], run-down
    
2. [informal] Used until no longer useful
   "battered trumpets and shot radios";
   - raddled, worn-out
    
3. Varying in colour when seen in different lights or from different angles
   "shot silk";
   - changeable, chatoyant, iridescent

1. Strike with a missile from a weapon
   "The hunter shot the deer";
   - hit, pip
    
2. Kill by firing a gun
   "The assassin shot the politician";
   - pip [informal], smoke [N. Amer, informal], blow away [informal]
    
3. Fire a shot; release
   "The hunter shot at the target";
   - blast
    
4. Make a film or photograph of something
   "shoot a movie";
   - film, take
    
5. Take a photograph
   "I shot the scene of the accident";
   - photograph, snap [informal], photo [informal]
    
6. Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
   "shoot a glance"
    
7. Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
   "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
    
8. Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
   "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
    
9. Move quickly and violently
   "The car shot down the street";
   - tear [informal], shoot down, charge, buck, bomb [Brit, informal], scream [informal]
    
10. Run or move very quickly or hastily
    "She shot into the yard";
    - dart, dash, scoot [informal], scud, flash, whip [informal]
     
11. Cause a sharp and sudden pain in
    "The pain shot up her leg"
     
12. Score
    "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
     
13. Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
    "The doctor shot the vaccine into the patient's arm";
    - inject
     
14. Give an injection to
    "We shot the glucose into the patient's vein";
    - inject
     
15. Utter fast and forcefully
    "She shot back an answer"
     
16. Throw dice, as in a crap game
    "He shot the dice and hoped for a seven"
     
17. Spend frivolously and unwisely
    "He shot his entire paycheque at the casino";
    - fritter, frivol away, dissipate, fritter away, fool, fool away
     
18. Measure the altitude of by using a sextant
    "shoot a star"
     
19. Produce buds, branches, or germinate
    "The potatoes began to shoot in the dark cellar";
    - germinate, pullulate, bourgeon [archaic], burgeon forth [archaic], sprout, burgeon [archaic]
     
20. Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colours
    "shoot cloth"

Derived forms: shots

See also: colorful [US], colourful [Brit, Cdn], tired, worn

Type of: ache, actuation, administer, approximation, attempt, barrel [informal], belt [informal], belt along [informal], blow, bucket [informal], bucket along [informal], burster, bursting charge, cast, chance, charge, comment, consume, contrive, discharge, dispense, effort, emit, enclose, endeavor [US], endeavour [Brit, Cdn], enter, estimate, estimation, expert, explosive charge, exposure, fire, give off, give out, grow, hasten, hie [archaic], hit, hotfoot, hurry, hurt, idea, inclose, injure, input, insert, interweave, introduce, kill, let loose, let out, maneuver [US], manoeuvre [Brit, Cdn], measure, measure out, medical aid, medical care, mensurate [rare], missile, opportunity, pelt [informal], pelt along [informal], photo, photograph, pic [informal], piccy [informal], picture, play, project, projectile, propulsion, put down, put in, race, rack up, record, remark, rocket [informal], rocket firing, rocket launching, rush, rush along, score, small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity, smart, speed, sports equipment, squander, step on it [informal], stick in, tally, throw, travel rapidly, try, utter, ware [archaic], waste, weave, whizz [informal], whizz along [informal], wing [informal], wound, zip [informal], zoom, zoom along [informal]

Part of: basketball, basketball game, canister, canister shot, case shot, film, flick [informal], hoops, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic [informal], picture, picture show

Encyclopedia: Shot, The