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dog-shot

dog-shot is the alternative form of dog shot.

Meaning of dog shot

Verb

dog shot (third-person singular simple present dog shots, present participle dog shotting, simple past and past participle dog shotted or dog shot)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, ambitransitive, slang) To deliver a dog shot to (someone); to hit (someone) suddenly and without warning; to king hit.
    • "There were four separate spot-fights going on, [another staff member] got dog-shotted and then another security guard from the Criterion came over to help us too."2016 November 6, Eliza Wheeler, “NIGHTCLUB BRAWL: Staff say drugs were to blame”, in Fraser Coast Chronicle

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Forms of dog-shot

third-person singular presentdog-shots
present participledog-shotting
past participledog-shotted
pastdog-shotted
past participledog-shot
pastdog-shot

Questions about dog-shot

What is dog-shot the alternative form of?
Dog-shot is the alternative form of dog shot.

Words near dog-shot in the dictionary

  1. dog-paddling
  2. dog-pile
  3. dog-piles
  4. dog-proof
  5. dog-sat
  6. dog-shot
  7. dog-shots
  8. dog-shotted
  9. dog-shotting
  10. dog-sit
  11. dog-sits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dog-shot (page history and authors); dog shot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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