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shotting

shotting is the present participle and gerund of shot.

Meaning of shot

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.
    • His order to me was, to see the top Chains put upon the Cables, and the Guns shotted.1681, Robert Knox, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon
  2. (Multicultural-London-English, transitive) To sell illegal drugs; to deal.
    • The mandem all used to go round there and get head off her, the sister blowing the man line by line while her brother shotted downstairs in the stairwell.2011, “Chyna”, in How I Escaped a Girl Gang: Rolling in a London Girl Gang
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To feed small shot to (a horse), as a fraudulent means of disguising broken-windedness.

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Words formed from shotting

Phrases with shotting

Questions about shotting

What is shotting the present participle and gerund of?
Shotting is the present participle and gerund of shot.

Words near shotting in the dictionary

  1. Shottery
  2. Shottesbrooke
  3. shottest
  4. shottie
  5. shotties
  6. shotting
  7. Shottingham
  8. Shottle
  9. Shottle and Postern
  10. Shotton
  11. Shotton Colliery

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