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shot-clog en · NOUN

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Etymology

From shot + clog.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, slang) Someone who is tolerated only because he pays the shot (reckoning at a bar etc.), for the rest of the group, otherwise he is a mere clog (obstruction) to them.
   • Thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies. 1605, George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston, Eastward Hoe:
   • Our shot-clog makes so much of him. 1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

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