big shot
A person with a reputation of importance or power.
They stopped traffic so some big shot and his entourage could have the whole road to themselves.
adj
Tired, weary.
I have to go to bed now; I’m shot.
Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
Tell me true, are you not glad to be fairly shot of him?
Worn out or broken.
The rear axle will have to be replaced. It’s shot.
... but he finds it hard to resist helping the boss's sister, who also works there and whose body "is more shot than mine."
Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an iridescent appearance.
The cloak was shot through with silver threads.
noun
The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
The shot was wide of the mark.
The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal.
They took the lead on a last-minute shot.
England's attacking impetus was limited to one shot from Lampard that was comfortably collected by keeper Iker Casillas, but for all Spain's domination of the ball his England counterpart Joe Hart was unemployed.
The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.
The shot flew twenty metres, and nearly landed on the judge's foot.
The athletics event of shot put.
For two years Templeton has given individual attention to Krenz. The young man has reciprocated by giving at least two hours each day to practice in the shot and discus.
Small metal balls, or other hard objects of various shapes, used as ammunition, especially in shotgun shells or artillery shells.
Steel shot, unlike lead shot, avoids contaminating the land with spent lead.
The bank robbers' handloaded shotgun shells used rock salt as the shot.
verb
To load (a gun) with shot.
His order to me was, to see the top Chains put upon the Cables, and the Guns shotted.
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.
[Verse 2:Kano]:If you've been shotting in the manor from way back when and you ain't on a kilo ting, I don't wanna hear about cunch and food and tings, man don't do those tings.
To feed small shot to (a horse), as a fraudulent means of disguising broken-windedness.