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Green’s Dictionary of Slang

shotty n.

also shottie

[abbr.]

(orig. US black) a shotgun.

[1951		Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 5 Aug. 6/7: We send for shells for the shotty-gun every 10 days or so].
1993		Lerner et al. Dict. of Today’s Words 158: Shottie – a shotgun.
1993		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 193: When I was told that Sid had been shot, I naturally suspected the .410 shotty had been used.
2000		W. Shaw Westsiders 42: He had his own rap name: R. Shottie — a ‘shottie’ is a shotgun.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 166/2: shotty n. a firearm.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl.
2009		P. Temple Truth 364: Murray raised the shotgun barrel [...] ‘Scare you, this shotty?’.
2012		G. Johnstone ‘No Through Road’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] Duy racked the shotty.
2013		D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] Sawn-off shottie at present arms.
2015		thewire.co.uk Oct. 🌐 There are many terms for guns [in grime music], for instance, usually single syllable words that can be dropped quickly: heat, skeng, shotty, pumpy, glock, gat, and so on.
2018		C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘He’s dead. Topped himself [...] Blew his brains out with a shotty’.
2020		D. Whish-Wilson Shore Leave 194: ‘Got his pistol, and a shottie’.
2021		T. Pluck Boy from County Hell 43: He dangled a cut-down pump shotty from his right index finger.
2023		D. Whish-Wilson I Am Already Dead 257: ‘[T]he whole armoury – the shotties, the pistolas, semiauto rifles, you name it’.

In compounds

bruck back shotty (n.)

(UK Black/gang) a sawn-off shotgun, thus bruck back, to saw off a gun.

2016		Harlem Spartans ‘Call me a Spartan’ 🎵 And I'll bruck back the shotty shotty / The .45 or the 2's).
2017		Tizzy Gang ‘How Comes’ 🎵 See me on the frontline, moving like Kuwaiti / With a big bruck back shotty and a 380.