shoot, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

shoot n.

1. an ejaculation; an act of sexual intercourse.

1837		‘Tear Duff Billy’ Ri-tum Ti-tum Songster 17: For my two shoots, / I forked her out a tanner.
1842		‘Smutty Jonathans’ Nancy Dawson’s Cabinet of Songs 43: Being friskily inclined, / I met a mot so fair and kind, / When to have a shoot – I did require, / ’Stead of her – I poked it into the fire.

2. (UK Und./Aus.) constructed with the, dismissal from a job or place of residence.

1846		Swell’s Night Guide 50: ‘Your doss gorger cracked a wid about you to me, and said she must give you the shoot.’ ‘Shoot! what for?’ roared poor Fuzzy [...] ‘Why because you made a dunniken of your cupboard, and used to lag in the coffee pot.’.
1900–10		Stephens & O’Brien Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.].
1908		Sun. Times (Perth) 5 Jan. 4/8: All shall depart where no shop-walker’s wink / Spells a ‘surprise’ or ‘shoot’.

3. (W.I.) one who is infected with an STD.

1995

Francis-Jackson Official Dancehall Dict. 48: Shoot a person who is shooting is infected with V.D.: u. de gal a shoot.

4. (UK black/drugs) an act of drug-dealing.

2020

G. Krauze What They Was 163: I’ve seen him [...] hitting shoots, getting his line banging with nittys.

5. see shot n.¹ (3a)

6. see shout n.

In compounds

staight shoot (n.)

(US black) an interrupted route, a direct journey.

1981

Lillie May Glover q. in McKee & Chisenhall Beale Black & Blue 156: We were a quarter-mile off Highway 70, the straight shoot to Memphis that was to West Tennessee blues musicians what Highway 61 was to those in the Mississippi Delta.

In phrases

get the shoot (v.)

to be dismissed from a job.

1906		E. Dyson Fact’ry ’Ands 183: Get er move on, ’r you’ll get ther shoot.
1909		J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era.
1922		E. Dyson Missing Link 🌐 Ch. vi: That was the third time he’d gone on th’ spree, an’ ther Perfesser ’ad warned him if it ’appened again he’d get the shoot.

up the shoot (adj.)

1. see up the chute under chute n.

2. see up the spout under spout n.²

whole bang shoot (n.)

see separate entry.