pot shot

A form of potshot — A shot taken at an easy or random target.

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Meanings

nounpot shot (plural pot shots)

plural pot shots

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of potshot.

    Why should Jonathan, Ruth and all the others have to stay out there like sitting ducks as policemen and their smug reporter friends took pot shots at them?

    2007 July 22, Sarah Helm, “My family's ordeal in police probe”, in The Observer
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APA

pot shot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pot%20shot

MLA

“pot shot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pot%20shot. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pot shot,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pot%20shot.

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