no shot
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from shot (“an opportunity or attempt”) or as a euphemism of no shit.
Phrase
[edit]- (slang) No chance or possibility (expressing amazement and disbelief of an event).
- Synonym: no way
- No shot!!! I just won the lottery!
- 2022 February 6, @olisbff, Twitter[1], archived from the original on 27 September 2023:
- Wordle 232 1/6 […] WHAT THE FUCK??? NO SHOT??? HOW THE ACTUAL FUCK DID I MANAGE
- 2022 April 2, u/ericmok100, “Kaijin Kaihatsu-bu no Kuroitsu-san - Episode 8 discussion”, in Reddit[2], r/anime, archived from the original on 27 September 2023:
- Haha no fkin shot, his brother is the Dr. This is the best twist ever.
- 2023 February 12, u/CmickG, “DR DISRESPECT - FANDUEL SUPERSTAR SHOWDOWN”, in Reddit[3], r/DrDisrespectLive, archived from the original on 27 September 2023:
- I was like "actual? low key bro no shot she said that, right?"
- 2023 September 21, @KJpixel14, Twitter[4], archived from the original on 27 September 2023:
- No shot you just responded to a tweet from three years ago how did you even find that😭
- 2023 September 22, @KibbleCog, Twitter[5], archived from the original on 27 September 2023:
- no shot they added rage queue prevention to mario kart💀
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, shot.
- 2022 September 12, Stephanie Nolen, “Monkeypox Shots, Treatments and Tests Are Unavailable in Much of the World”, in The New York Times[6], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-11:
- While there is no shot specifically for monkeypox, data from trials with nonhuman primates suggested that vaccines against the closely related smallpox virus might also prevent transmission of this one.