shot-clog

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English

Etymology

From shot +‎ clog.

Pronunciation

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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for shot-clog”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)