Shot-clog

Shot-clog
Shot-clog Shot"-clog`, n. A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them. [Old Slang] [1913 Webster]

Thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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