potshot

See also: pot shot

English

Alternative forms

• pot shot

Etymology

From pot +‎ shot.

Noun

potshot (plural potshots)

1. A shot taken at an easy or random target.
2. Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.
   • 2018 July 26, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “A documentary muckraker takes on the tech sector of health in The Bleeding Edge”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 July 2018:

     He takes his share of potshots (mostly at the Da Vinci surgical robot), but the conscience of the film is in the stories of Essure, a procedure marketed to women as a hassle-free alternative to tubal ligation

Translations

shot at an easy target or at random

• Bulgarian: изстрел отблизо (izstrel otblizo)
• Finnish: räiskäisy (one); räiskintä (fi) (many)
• German: Schuss aufs Geratewohl m

criticism of an easy target

• Finnish: halpa kritiikki
• German: Seitenhieb (de) m

Verb

potshot (third-person singular simple present potshots, present participle potshotting, simple past and past participle potshotted)

1. To fire potshots.

Translations

to fire potshots

• Finnish: räiskiä (fi)
• German: drauflosballern

Anagrams

• hot pots, hot spot, hotpots, hotspot