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Webster 1913 Edition


Shot-clog

Shot′-clogˊ

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Noun.
A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them.
[Old Slang]
Thou common
shot-clog
, gull of all companies.
Chapman.

Definition 2024


shot-clog

shot-clog

English

Noun

shot-clog (plural shot-clogs)

  1. (obsolete, slang) One who is tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them.
    Thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies. Chapman.
    Our shot-clog makes so much of him. Ben Jonson.