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potshot en · ADJ

Etymology

From pot + shot. 1858, shot taken for the (cooking) pot, namely for food; see pothunter. Sense “opportunistic criticism” from 1926. Sense “drunk” from obsolete pot (“cup used for drinking liquor”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete, slang) Drunk.

Forms

Synonyms

lubed up · out of sight · feeling no pain · adrip · worse for wear · tuned · inebriate · crocked · inter pocula · have the sun in one's eyes · stinko · bingoed · befuddled · lathered · smashed · overrefreshed · jaked · canned · pickled · parlatic · blue · mad with it · corned · dead drunk · three sheets to the wind · loose · stotious · besotted · a sheet in the wind's eye · bladdered · inebriated · whittled · wobbly · tight · a sheet in the wind · bottled · clobbered · fuckfaced · high as a kite · liquory · strut · blind · tanked · shicker · beliquored · slizzard · tight as a tick · ebriose · soused · how came you so · mabok · groggy · aled up · inebrious · sloppy drunk · bungfu · muggy · blasted · have drink taken · snozzled · tipsy · woozy · fuzzy-minded · cockeyed · ripped · zonked · schloshed · lubed · blewed · cup-shotten · ginned · temulentive · trashed · monged · rolling · Brahms · cut · skunked · plowed · looped · fresh · overcome · wazzocked · drunk as a piper · fershnickered · scuttered · ploughed · out of one's head · pixilated · twisted · high · half polluted · full · gesuip · sodden · spanceled · cunted · toping · tanked up · stoned · shitty · fuddled · lushed · blocked · hooched up · sprung · disguised · sozzly · slarmied · potshot · rubbered · snockered · langered · muddled · legless · wellied · jarred · Oliver Twist · juiced up · floored · temulent · nimptopsical · larruped · tilted · wet · razzled · squiffed · worse for liquor · on the ran tan · in liquor · in one's cups · wazzed · blind drunk · in the bag · flush · flooey · Adrian Quist · lashed · fou · shedded · scammered · pie-eyed · bibulous · stoated · newted · bedrunken · fluted · crapulous · sauced · juiced · drunked up · drunk · soaken · nappy · obfuscated · gattered · in one's altitudes · muzzy · potted · hosed · tippled · shickered · kaylied · throwed · fuzzy-headed · sozzled · blottoed · bibacious · out of it · maggot · three sheets in the wind · maudlin · Brahms and Liszt · shellacked · fap · liquored up · budgy · off one's tits · blootered · mortalled · raddled · zooted · cup-shot · munted · fried · arseholed · lubricated · burlin' · lit · ripe · in the drink · souped-up · hooted · snuffy · well-oiled · elephant's trunk · stewed · plastered · schnockered · soshed · top-heavy · flustered · fuckered up · screwed · sotted · stinking · spannered · off one's head · half seas over · fluthered · faced · lamped · hoovered · cocked · quisby · ebriated · high as a Georgia pine · elevated · mullered · binned · oiled up · sloshed · blitzed · bollocksed · destroyed · besotten · elephant's · lash · primed · mortal · wrecked · impaired · kettled · out of one's box · steamboats · drunken · insobrietous · spiffed · MWI · hazed · gassed · twatfaced · overtaken · zotzed · bosky · pounded · groggified · kisky · insober · gee-eyed · withered · slammed · all mops and brooms · splashed · puggled · flushed · zoned · spongy · four sheets in the wind · sauced up · loaded · toasted · langers · hog-whimpering · stonkered · mashed · bevvied · sewed up · messed up · Oliver · Mozart and Liszt · maggoted · swacked · glorious · hammered · honkers · sottish · top-heavy with drink · half cut · ratfaced · medicated · bombed · paralytic · oiled · loopy · gished · out of one's face · obliviated · frosted · boozy · ossified · off one's box · polluted · snookered · tired and emotional · bungalowed · wastey · zorched · half lit

potshot en · NOUN

Etymology

From pot + shot. 1858, shot taken for the (cooking) pot, namely for food; see pothunter. Sense “opportunistic criticism” from 1926. Sense “drunk” from obsolete pot (“cup used for drinking liquor”).

Meanings

1. A shot taken at an easy or random target.
   • Bannister leaped up, ran lightly across the intervening space, and with his repeater took a potshot at the galloping horseman. 1908, William MacLeod Raine, Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West:
   • to take a potshot at
2. (figuratively) Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.
   • He takes his share of potshots (mostly at the Da Vinci surgical robot), but the conscience of the film is in the stories of Essure, a procedure marketed to women as a hassle-free alternative to tubal ligation 2018 July 26, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “A documentary muckraker takes on the tech sector of health in The Bleeding Edge”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2018:
   • And until recently, anyone could read his Facebook posts, which included vulgar potshots at Nancy Pelosi and her husband and a pronouncement that supporters of Joseph R. Biden Jr. suffered from a “mental affliction.” 2025 May 13, Richard Fausset, “The Pope’s Florida Brother, a MAGA Disciple, Plans to ‘Tone It Down’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

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Relateds

pothunter

Translations (9)

fi räiskäisy (shot at an easy target or at random) · de Seitenhieb (criticism of an easy target) · fi sokkolaukaus (shot at an easy target or at random) · fi räiskintä (shot at an easy target or at random) · de Schuss aufs Geratewohl (shot at an easy target or at random) · fi halpa kritiikki (criticism of an easy target) · bg изстрел отблизо (shot at an easy target or at random) · da kasteskud (shot at an easy target or at random) · fi summittainen kritiikki (criticism of an easy target)

potshot en · VERB

Etymology

From pot + shot. 1858, shot taken for the (cooking) pot, namely for food; see pothunter. Sense “opportunistic criticism” from 1926. Sense “drunk” from obsolete pot (“cup used for drinking liquor”).

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of potshoot
   form of potshoot
2. To fire potshots.
   • Howard appeared in the doorway. “Say, Sig, go down to the corral and saddle up Teddy for Steve, will you? Some of his friends have been potshotting at him again. No damage done, except to my feelings, but there's nothing like being careful.” 1910, William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger:

Forms

Translations (2)

de drauflosballern (to fire potshots) · fi räiskiä (to fire potshots)