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.

    “You started out to be a road-agent and he took a pot-shot at the first person he saw. I'm surely obliged to you both for taking so much interest in me, or rather in my team. Robbery and murder are quite a family pastime, ain't they?”

    1910, William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger
adjectivepot-shot (comparative more pot-shot, superlative most pot-shot)

comparative more pot-shot · superlative most pot-shot

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of potshot.
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of pot-shoot
Cite this entry
APA

pot-shot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pot-shot

MLA

“pot-shot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pot-shot. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pot-shot,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pot-shot.

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