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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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shot
noun
a brief loan; a temporary use (of something); a ‘turn’:
He took my mother with him and on the way up he asked her if she wanted a shot at driving the car.
20-
.
etymology:
Scots; attested by
JS
,
SS
,
ET
,
BW
,
DW
and
DW
in
DC