1(of colored cloth) woven with a warp and weft of different colors, giving a contrasting iridescent effect when looked at from different angles:a dress of shot silk
interspersed with a different color:dark hair shot with silver
2 informal ruined or worn out:a completely shot engine will put you out of the racemy nerves are shot
[predic.] drunk.
Phrases
get (or be) shot of
British informal get (or be) rid of.
shot through with
suffused with (a particular feature or quality):the mist was shot through with orange spokes of light
