shoot n.
1. an ejaculation; an act of sexual intercourse.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘Tear Duff Billy’ Ri-tum Ti-tum Songster 17: For my two shoots, / I forked her out a tanner. | |
| ‘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.
| 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.’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.]. | |
| 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.
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | 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.
| 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
(US black) an interrupted route, a direct journey.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | 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
to be dismissed from a job.
| Fact’ry ’Ands 183: Get er move on, ’r you’ll get ther shoot. | |
| Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era. | |
| 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. |
1. see up the chute under chute n.
2. see up the spout under spout n.2
see separate entry.