English Explanatory Dictionary

potshot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A shot taken at an easy or random target.
  2. Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.
verb
  1. To fire potshots.
adj
  1. Drunk.
verb
  1. simple past and past participle of potshoot

Word forms

potshot potshots pot shot pot-shot potshotting potshotted more potshot most potshot

Etymology

From pot + shot. 1858, shot taken for the (cooking) pot, namely for food; see pothunter. Sense “opportunistic criticism” from 1926. Sense “drunk” from obsolete pot (“cup used for drinking liquor”).

Synonyms

Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted besotten bevvied bibacious bibulous binned bingoed bladdered blasted blewed blind blind drunk blitzed blocked blootered blottoed blue bollocksed bombed boozy bosky bottled Brahms Brahms and Liszt budgy bungalowed bungfu burlin' canned clobbered corned cocked cockeyed crapulous crocked cunted cup-shot cup-shotten cut dead drunk destroyed disguised drunk drunk as a piper drunked up drunken ebriated ebriose elephant's elephant's trunk

Related words

pothunter
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