shot-clog

English

Etymology

shot +‎ clog

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.
    • Chapman
      Thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies.
    • Ben Jonson
      Our shot-clog makes so much of him.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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