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shot-clogs

shot-clogs is the plural of shot-clog.

Meaning of shot-clog

Noun

shot-clog (plural shot-clogs)

  1. (obsolete, slang) Someone who is tolerated only because he pays the shot (reckoning at a bar etc.), for the rest of the group, otherwise he is a mere clog (obstruction) to them.
    • Thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies.1605, George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston, Eastward Hoe

Questions about shot-clogs

What is shot-clogs the plural of?
Shot-clogs is the plural of shot-clog.

Words near shot-clogs in the dictionary

  1. shot with a shovel
  2. shot-blasting
  3. shot-caller
  4. shot-callers
  5. shot-clog
  6. shot-clogs
  7. shot-drill
  8. shot-firer
  9. shot-free
  10. shot-garland
  11. shot-garlands

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