Usually means: Small amount of liquid measure.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. shot: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shot, shot, shot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shot, shot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shot, shot: Wordnik
  7. shot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shot: Wiktionary
  9. shot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shot: Dictionary.com
  13. shot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sho't, Shot (album), Shot (disambiguation), Shot (film), Shot (filming), Shot (filmmaking), Shot (ice hockey), Shot (pellet), Shot (song), Shot, The Shot (Pushkin), The Shot (TV series), The Shot (Valparaiso University), The Shot (disambiguation), The Shot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shot: Rhymezone
  19. shot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SHOT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. SHOT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Shot: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. shot: Free Dictionary
  25. shot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. shot: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. Shot: World Wide Words
  28. shot: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. shot: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Shot: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  3. shot: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SHOT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. shot: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. shot, shot, shot, shot, shot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shot: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Shot: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Shot: A Seattle Lexicon
  5. The Shot, s'hot: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shot: Backgammon
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  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Shot: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
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(Note: See shoting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Tired, weary.
adjective:  Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
adjective:  (colloquial) Worn out or broken.
adjective:  (of material, especially silk) Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an iridescent appearance.
noun:  The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
noun:  (sports) The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal.
noun:  (countable, athletics) The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.
noun:  (uncountable, athletics) The athletics event of shot put.
noun:  (uncountable) Small metal balls, or other hard objects of various shapes, used as ammunition, especially in shotgun shells or artillery shells.
noun:  (uncountable, military, historical) Metal balls (or similar) used as ammunition; not necessarily small.
noun:  Someone who shoots (a gun, longbow, etc.); a person reckoned as to their aim.
noun:  (figurative) An opportunity or attempt.
noun:  A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting.
noun:  (slang, sports, US) A punch or other physical blow.
noun:  A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle, equivalent to about 44 milliliters; 1.5 ounces. ("pony shot"= 30 milliliters; 1 fluid ounce)
noun:  A single serving of espresso.
noun:  (archaic) A reckoning, a share of a tavern bill, etc.
noun:  (photography, film) A single snapshot or an unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent; an unedited sequence of frames.
noun:  (US, Canada, Australia, medicine) A vaccination or injection.
noun:  (baseball, informal) A home run that scores one, two, or three runs (a four run home run is usually referred to as a grand slam).
noun:  (US federal prison system) Written documentation of a behavior infraction.
noun:  (fisheries) A cast of one or more nets.
noun:  (fisheries) A place or spot for setting nets.
noun:  (fisheries) A single draft or catch of fish made.
verb:  (transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.
verb:  (transitive, MLE) To sell illegal drugs; to deal.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To feed small shot to (a horse), as a fraudulent means of disguising broken-windedness.
noun:  A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.

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