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shot-free

shot-free is the obsolete form of scot-free.

Meaning of scot-free

Adverb

scot-free (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) Without consequences or penalties, free without payment.
    • to get off scot-free

See all 2 meanings of scot-free

Origin of shot-free

From shot + -free.

Questions about shot-free

What is shot-free the obsolete form of?
Shot-free is the obsolete form of scot-free.

Words near shot-free in the dictionary

  1. shot-callers
  2. shot-clog
  3. shot-clogs
  4. shot-drill
  5. shot-firer
  6. shot-free
  7. shot-garland
  8. shot-garlands
  9. shot-glass
  10. shot-glasses
  11. shot-gun

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shot-free (page history and authors); scot-free (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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